“The movie I’m working on now is Fantastic Beasts three. I’ve been composing it for eight months and rewritten a good part of it many times and I agree with you that exposure and immersion in a movie over a long period of time affords…

Q: I’m curious as to your process with sequels because I imagine it’s quite tricky, and you’ve mentioned Fantastic Beasts three – how would you decide what to take and what’s new, because I imagine it’s not as simple as just matching themes to new…

“I just presented David Yates with the first six reels of Fantastic Beasts 3. So, I’ve been working on the material I just showed him for four months, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I started the movie last week, here’s my first ideas’, no. These…

“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…

“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…

“I definitely have a lot to do in this one, which I’m really excited about. The whole thing leads up to, and the through-line, historically, is the build up to world war two.” Source: YouTube

“With Jacob, in the third movie, you’re gonna see that this whole business with the wizards – it’s taken a toll on him. Things are getting more serious. He’s definitely still a gregarious soul and has the biggest heart in the world, but he’s getting…

“At the start he [Yusuf] was a character who transformed into an animal. There was a lot more prosthetic work, so it amused me a lot. I already saw myself transforming into a bird, etc. And when I was told that we were removing this part, I was…