After spending years tormenting Harry Potter and then being mean to primates in last year’s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, it would seem it’s finally Tom Felton’s turn to play the victim, as he’s joined the cast of Therese Raquin.
Theatre director Charlie Stratton has written and aims to direct the adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel (which also became a play in 1873), which finds Therese (Elizabeth Olsen) as a lonely, unhappy girl sent to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin (Glenn Close).
Our heroine grows up alongside Madame’s own child, the sickly, spoiled Camille (Felton, proving that you can take the boy out of the Draco Malfoy role but not necessarily the Malfoy out of the boy), and when they’re old enough, Madame convinces Therese to marry her cousin. But she’s desperately depressed and ends up starting a passionate affair with one of her husband’s childhood friends, Laurent. They eventually decide to murder Camille, drowning him during a boat trip. The crime (and the victim) haunt the pair to such a degree that the artistic Laurent is eventually unable to create anything that doesn’t somehow reference the dead man. What follows is even more tragic. There’s pretty much zero chance of a happy ending here…
Felton will next be seen in sports drama From The Rough and horror pic The Apparition.