When HBO first announced its new Harry Potter series, the early chatter focused on the young cast, questions about canon, and whether audiences were ready to revisit the wizarding world at all. But amid all that noise, one of the show’s new stars offered a refreshingly modern takeaway. The actor stepping into Draco Malfoy’s very blond shoes recently opened up about juggling two major book-to-screen adaptations at once, and about bonding with the man playing his famously intimidating father, summing it all up with a phrase that feels extremely of the moment.
That actor is 14-year-old Lox Pratt, who will portray Draco in the upcoming HBO series. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pratt talked about moving between BBC’s Lord of the Flies and Harry Potter, before casually dropping a Gen Z descriptor that instantly stood out. Reflecting on working opposite Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Pratt said:
