Interesting Article! “19 Secrets I Learned On Set Of The "Fantastic Beasts" Sequel”
Posted on August 10, 2018, at 3:04 p.m.
by Ellie Bate
If, like me, you're a huge fan of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, you're probably super excited to see the next instalment of the Fantastic Beasts series, in cinemas this November.
Back in October, I got the opportunity to visit the set of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald while it was filming at Leavesden Studios in London. While I was there, I spoke to some of the cast – Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, and Ezra Miller – and key members of the production team about their work on the film.
The Statute of Secrecy may have been in full effect, but they did reveal a ~few~ secrets about the upcoming film. Here's what I learned...
1. The sequel is much darker than the first Fantastic Beasts but still has elements of the lightness and magic that we expect from the wizarding world.
According to both producer David Heyman and star Eddie Redmayne, The Crimes of Grindelwald plays more like a thriller than continuing the light, comedic tone of the original.
"It’s dark, it’s got an energy to it and a seriousness to it," Redmayne revealed. "And yet it has all the kind of, the lightness and the wonder that [J.K. Rowling] delivers as well. What I find amazing is that she manages to weave these different genres together."
2. The film begins with "a very powerful, dynamic action sequence" in which Grindelwald escapes from the American wizarding authorities.
3. Since the end of the first film, Credence has made his way to Paris, and a lot of people are looking for him, which is what leads so many of our characters to the French capital.
Katherine Waterston, who plays Tina, explained why her character's relationship to Credence is so intense: "Her Achilles heel — the thing that kind of makes her throw the rulebook out the window — is a person, particularly a young person, in trouble, in need ... There’s something almost of an obsession I think she has with Credence. She feels very responsible for him."
4. We get to see Tina take more of an active role in the fight against Grindelwald – and the "damsel in distress" dynamic we saw in the first movie may be reversed.
Speaking about working with the stunt department, Waterston explained: "Everything we develop with the stunts is so connected to who these individuals are, what they would be capable of, you know, and kind of communicating their background in the action. With Tina, we’ve explored the sort of defensive moves she would have learned training as an Auror."
5. And Newt has unwittingly become a bit of a celebrity since the end of the first film, thanks to the publication of his book.
"He’s not someone that’s particularly comfortable with human relationships anyway, and suddenly his book has come out, which is of course what he was most passionate about," Redmayne said. "But the book, while informing people about magical creatures, has not necessarily had all the effects he had hoped for ... He’s wanting to get back to New York. He’s wanting to find Tina. But he’s been grounded in London and unable to leave."
6. There are elements of Newt's character that were improvised and influenced by Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of him in the first film.
According to Redmayne, J.K. Rowling was open to the actors improvising and playing around with their characters within the framework of the story.
"I think it’s one of the most amazing things that someone with such brilliance also encourages people to take her work and run with it," he said of the author.
7. Newt has an apartment in London with a secret basement that's basically an extension of his famous case.
The film's production designer, Stuart Craig, and senior art director Christian Huband revealed that the basement — which Rowling intended to be "a hospital for magical creatures" — extends to an impossible depth and contains all the creatures from his case.
Newt enters the basement via a cupboard under the stairs, and the staircases are reminiscent of those at Hogwarts. According to Craig, that was intentional: "Newt went to Hogwarts. As he did this spell, he’s channeling his inner child."
8. He also has an assistant named Bunty (played byCall The Midwifestar Victoria Yeates), who is obsessed with Newt's work and maybe a little infatuated with him.
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