“It’s been a while since we’ve finished filming. I did some ADR, which is post production, the other day and I just love the magic of that world and I hope that this film will have some of that kind of joy and humour and…

“I can’t tell you anything other than the fact that I think I’ve got some night shoots in Watford, in Leavesden, that we were meant to shoot in the summer in water. But now obviously because of lockdown, and the film shutdown, they’re being shot…

“I think there are probably some quite intimate scenes with some ‘Fantastic Beasts’, you know Yates, and he likes to get up close and personal. But not intimate in that way. Not massively intimate scenes for Newt here, but honestly, I think we all went…

“There was quite a lovely scene in the pub between a wizarding pub, after that first scene where Newt refuses to be taken in by the ministry basically, and become an Auror. He kind of storms out, and originally there was a scene in which…

“I saw an early version of the script in which the young guys [Newt & Theseus] – the flashback when they were at Hogwarts together. He [Theseus] came like, flying past the window on a quidditch broomstick, and he was clearly like a schoolboy sporting…

“When he was first described by Jo [Rowling] in the first film there were various qualities – the way he walked, the way he looked, and his eye contact – was spoken about” “I think he is on the Asperger’s spectrum. At that point, it…

“Newt’s become a celebrity, which, as someone who struggles to communicate with other humans, is a bit, he’s not that comfortable with his new-found celebrity. There was a scene in which he was going to be surrounded by fans [on the street] and he had…

“I saw a scene in which Newt’s become really famous. There are fans trying to come into the room and he doesn’t have the facility to cope with that and is kind of all over the place. But, oh that’s right, there was a scene…

“[Dumbledore and Grindelwald] have this relationship which is incredibly intimate and goes back years since they were kids. Newt isn’t aware of it. He’s not. But there is a moment in which clearly Grindelwald is becoming this force which is pretty terrifying and pretty dogmatic…

“It [scene of Newt communicating with the Zouwu in Mandarin] was cut! I think they were like ‘yes, it was just a time thing’, but I think the reality is because my Mandarin was too bad. But it was a – it was trying to…