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“You don’t want to copy anything doing - that would be creative suicide. “It was quite chaotic,” Mads Mikkelsen who now plays Gellert Grindelwald in the new film told The Hollywood Reporter.

Scandal specific to Fantastic Beasts also includes the fall of Johnny Depp, who played Grindelwald in the first two films, but was forced to leave the franchise after he sued The Sun for libel following the tabloid calling him a “wife beater” in a 2018 article, and Depp lost the case. accepted requested changes from China to cut six seconds of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which refer to the romance between the two characters. It was reported this week that Warner Bros. While there had also been pushback from fans that Albus Dumbledore’s sexuality was never mentioned in the franchise, and his romantic relationship with Grindelwald. Rowling going from being a literary icon to being called out for her transphobic rhetoric. While Harry Potter movies were exceptionally successful, it’s no secret that the Fantastic Beasts films have been riddled with controversy, including J.K. Pictures) No magic wand to fix 'Fantastic Beasts' scandals Pictures' fantasy adventure 'FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,” a Warner Bros. (L-R) JUDE LAW as Albus Dumbledore and EDDIE REDMAYNE as Newt Scamander in Warner Bros. You think of how Dumbledore believed in Draco, he believed even in Tom Riddle, he sees the good, or the potential good, and I think that's something that he's always had.” But if there were a quality that links him, I would say it's his mischievousness, his humour, and his belief in people. “In this film, in particular, he's facing the past, he's facing himself and his own guilt. “He's a man still finding his way, still confronting and resolving his demons, and that's what I mean by regression.” “One of the joys that David really allowed me to investigate was, rather than feeling the weight of the brilliant performances by Michael Gambon and Richard Harris, was to really go back and understand that he's not the fully formed Dumbledore of the Harry Potter books and films,” Law told reporters ahead of the movie’s release.

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Rowling’s “Harry Potter” world but actor Jude Law, who continues to play the character in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, reveals that Dumbledore is going through “a process of regression” from the older Harry Potter stories to the new movie (in theatres Friday, April 15 in North America). Waterston (another Londoner, for those keeping score) has been publicly critical of JK Rowling’s transphobic rhetoric, so fans are left to speculate if this has had an impact on how her slice of the story will be told going forward, or if it’s merely some spoiler-avoidant editing in service of some narrative surprise.For over 20 years, Albus Dumbledore has been one of the most beloved characters in J.K. Fans who have seen the trailers and promo materials for this third Fantastic Beasts film have noticed the character’s veritable absence, despite being officially listed as a cast member, and being an indispensable aspect of Newt’s life story.

She is a character who decides for herself what is just, even if her bosses disagree, and it is this righteousness that makes her a valuable partner to the good guys of the story. She’s a New Yorker and a graduate of America’s wizarding school. Ostensibly the female lead of the series, and Newt’s primary love interest (especially now that Zoë Kravitz’s Leta Lestrange is out of the picture), Tina ( Katherine Waterston) is an auror, which is the wizarding world’s version of law-enforcement. As the Beasts films worked to get their cultural footing, Newt proved to be one of the easier elements of them to embrace.

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Having an Oscar caliber actor in such a role is an age-old cheat code when the stakes are that high, and Redmayne sells Scamander’s curiosity, awkwardness, and bravery with veteran ease. The budding franchise’s success hinged, in part, on successfully selling Newt’s likability and the plausibility of his continued proximity to mortal peril. Redmayne had to step into the wizard world playing a fully formed man, one who many casual fans had of only in passing. The year after that, he debuted in the role of Newt Scamander, a British wizard fascinated with magical creatures.ĭaniel Radcliffe had many Harry Potter films to grow into the young man people picture when they think of that character. He was nominated the following year for his role in The Danish Girl. Before picking up his magic wand, the most high-profile work of the actor’s career was arguably 2014’s Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, which earned the actor that film’s sole Academy Award. Star of the stage and screen since 1998, London-born Eddie Redmayne toplines the ensemble cast as the charmingly idiosyncratic Hufflepuff alum.

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