Tag: Newt Scamander

Dan Fogler

“In the first movie, they [Jacob & Newt] made such an impression on each other; it’s like you’re connected forever after you go through something like that. And Newt trusted Jacob enough to bring him along, to introduce him to all the creatures – I…

Eddie Redmayne

“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…

Eddie Redmayne

“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…

Zoe Kravitz

“I think they [Leta and Newt] were probably still quite close even when Newt goes to America, which is why I think it’s such a jarring thing to come home and find I’m engaged to Theseus. We’ve all known each other for a really long…

JK Rowling

“Newt is the heart of these movies, and in a very different way to the way Harry was the heart of the first movies. Newt, for me, represents a man who is good without realising he’s good. He is a man who needs persuading to…

Katherine Waterston

“I didn’t consider it jealousy [of Leta]. Tina was very sad and wounded. She thought she had a very good relationship with Newt but it was different, so she felt angry and sad. It’s a fun feeling to watch two people in a movie together,…

Eddie Redmayne

“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…

Colleen Atwood

“I think that Eddie’s [costume] shows the vulnerability and awkwardness of him and the sort of eternal boy innocence. We tried to reflect this by making his costume fit in the sense that he’s ready to grow out of it.” Source: GQ

Eddie Redmayne

“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…

Jude Law

“There is so much going on beneath the surface. Here is someone who has been told since being an infant that he was special. That he had the capability of being very powerful. But just at the wrong time he went through a crushing personal…