“It’s a big responsibility. He’s so precious and respected by so many; people love this character. And complicated. He’s a complicated character and it’s been a really, I think quite rare experience to go back and play someone in their youth to try and put…

“I just love this man [Albus Dumbledore]. You have to learn to understand the characters you play and you learn, I think, to find yourself in them, and them in you. And it’s always refreshing to learn to not judge and to fully appreciate a…

“What Jo Rowling did was really fill in the past of Albus Dumbledore and, I mean, an awful lot of his past is hinted at and referenced in the books of Harry Potter; she filled in a lot of gaps that weren’t mentioned in the…

“Ezra and I were on the street in Berlin doing our scene and I started to think of Once Upon a Time in the West.” Source: 4DX Podcast

“There is a little bit more fun, absolutely, yeah, absolutely. And I think what they do very well is they always manage to find throughout, I think, this balance between drama and themes that are timely, timeless, but always quite familiar in that they’re big…

“The last day I was in it was you [Dan Fogler] and me, and Jessica [Williams] and Eddie [Redmayne] and we had a great scene.” Source: 4DX Podcast

“He [Dumbledore] was very close to going round the world and conquering the world with Gellert Grindelwald and suddenly it was like he caught himself, so I think he’s always pulling back and, in a way, what we’re seeing in this younger version, is a…

Has he fully given up hope that Grindelwald can come back to his side? “I don’t think he gives up on people, no, I think he still believes that there might be a possibility of turning him. The reason I stick to that isn’t anything…

“To not look at, and embrace, all the things that we love about Dumbledore would have been foolhardy, but, at the same time, I was really relieved that David [Yates] and Jo both said, ‘Look, there’s so much yet formed, yet resolved in this man’s…

You mentioned that Dumbledore is a manipulator. One thing we find here is that Dumbledore sent Newt to America in the first place. Is there any possibility that Albus Dumbledore knew about Aurelius? David Yates: “That’s a very key question. The thing is, if he…