“Graves is working in a place where he’s worked for many years, so if there was anything amiss in his behaviour, anything altered, there could be some very smart people in MACUSA who would send off alarm bells. Unbeknownst to those around him, Graves’ political…

“[Graves is] very high up the command chain, there to investigate, control and contain anyone or thing that is trifling with the Dark Arts, anything detrimental to wizardkind. But it’s mostly the maintenance, the protection and the upholding of the laws that we have set…

“His role, literally, is that he’s the magical head of security of MACUSA, which is the Magical Congress of the United States of America, which is a social and political body at the center of the wizarding experience in North America and his job is…

“I don’t think he feels lonely in himself, but looking at him from the outside, he lives a very solitary, almost monastic existence, and he’s paid a high price for following through on his responsibility and his vow of protecting the world of wizard kind…

“He’s probably a lot more tired from the burden of responsibility that he lives with, and under, than the film was allowed the opportunity to explore. There was one scene that didn’t make the film that we shot where he was actually having a vision…

“That is the challenge of the movie – can you tell a story about a corruptive, corrupting relationship between an older and younger man. A young man who’s damaged and looking for help, and this older man who’s trying to beguile him and use him.”…

“I always saw that dynamic [Credence & Graves] as they need things from each other. Credence is in this position where he just desperately needs any sort of affection, acknowledgement, just human touch – I mean, there’s a real hunger. We would talk about these…

“I play the chief security officer for the protection of wizards, for MACUSA. And I am the right hand man of President Picquery, who is played by the lovely Carmen Ejogo. And that’s it really. I am a very powerful wizard and naturally skilled. He…