Tom Felton: 'Draco is a pain in the neck'

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Harry Potter star Tom Felton has admitted that he cannot defend the behaviour of his character Draco Malfoy.

The 21-year-old actor started playing the bad boy role in 2001 and has since seen Draco transform from school bully to a member of the murderous Death Eaters in the movies.

Commenting on the part in an interview with Splash News, he remarked: "He's such a pain in the neck and he just gets worse and worse."

However, he then added: "As an actor, I get great pleasure playing this evil little b**tard."

Felton also revealed that concerns over his bleached hair are the only downside to appearing in the films.

"I've been dyeing it to play Malfoy for about eight years now," he explained. "People keep telling me all this peroxide is going to make my hair fall out."

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is in cinemas now.