Lucius is such a wonderful character because you don't need to look far for inspiration. Here's a guy who thinks his blood is purer than others' and that wizards should rule the world and that a certain race should be wiped out. He comes from families that have been in power forever and he can't bear to see these mixed bloods taking power, and every time you switch on the telly, there's people like that getting elected to governments all over Europe as we speak and running around America with pillowcases on their heads. So it's children's literature but it's very relevant to the world we live in.

That wasn't the look that they originally wanted, somebody floated the idea that I should have a pinstriped suit because I work in government and I said, "F*ck this, I'm playing a wizard. How often am I going to play a wizard? I want to have long blonde hair. He doesn't care about the muggle world, Lucius Malfoy, he wouldn't nod to it. Plus he's from those families, aristocratic wizarding families. He wouldn't wear a pinstriped suit, he'd wear what people have worn forever in his family, floor length ermine and velvet and stuff like that.

I think I will have to own him (Tom Fenton, Draco's actor) legions of more female fans because I watched the first film for some inspiration, what is this world I'm entering. I looked at this horrible little git who was my son. When I arrived and we played the first scene, we went straight into the first scene, and I just grabbed him by the ear, and then I rapped him on the knuckles, and he looked up at me really hurt. I didn't know if it was Tom or Draco that was looking so hurt, because I just thought it was right that Lucius I a really horrible Dad, really abusive Dad. And I could see generations of Malfoys stretching back into time where the fathers have been cold and brutal and hideous to their kids and that's what turns the kids into that. And for me it makes it far more understandable why Draco's like that at school. He gets no love at home, it's a horrible loveless place, and suddenly he's at school and he's not going to let anyone else enjoy themselves, he's resentful of real friendships for instance, and so I think I get him the compassionate vote, which you wouldn't have thought Draco would ever get from anybody.

I don't know if the Lucius Malfoy doll is going to look anything like me or not but hopefully it'll have that cane. I'm the one that came up with the cane and the wand idea, Chris said to me, "Ah, the toy guys are going to love you."

~*Melody Lestrange*~ | ~Gabriel Archer~ | ~Lucius Malfoy~ | *Kimmy Knightdale* | -Jacob Wrathorne- | #Professor Meridian#