The best paid half hour: This was paid by Tom Felton for the ‘Harry Potter’ saga

When we talk about successful film sagas, there are many titles that can come to mind. However, most viewers will quickly think of a name. This is not another saga that ‘Harry Potter‘, the saga based on the best-seller of children’s literature by JK Rowling.

A saga of eight films where the story of a young magician is told from his childhood to adulthood. A production that had a high economic cost due to the large contracts that its stars had, Daniel Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert grint (Ron Weasley).

And it is that the budget of the film ended up in the pockets of its characters, as is the case with Tom Feltonwho played the role of drake Malfoy during the eight deliveries.

A stratospheric sum

Tom Felton He made a much smaller appearance than the rest of his companions, since according to IMDb from a study carried out by ‘The Mirror’, the British actor would have appeared during the eight films in just thirty-one minutes. Half an hour for which he earned a stratospheric sum of money.

who would play Draco Malfoy he pocketed a salary of 14 million pounds for the entire saga. That is, in exchange, more than €16,200,000. Almost nothing for a slight participation, since the figure of his character is really important within the plot, being one of the main protagonists.

The best paid half hour

And it is that, as we have said before, the sum of minutes that appears on the screen has nothing to do with the importance that his character has within the plot. Repellent and evil, he came to win the love and affection of all the followers of the saga after his success.

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The eight films are not understood without his participation. Furthermore, today, Tom Felton is still current. More now, when the British actor has published his memoirs, where he talks about his appearance in ‘Harry Potter’ and his relationship with some of his companions, such as allan Rickman either Emma Watson.