“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 no obviously because of lockdown, and the film shutdown, they’re being sot…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…