LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – Eddie Redmayne returns for his third outing as magizoologist Newt Scamander in “Implausible Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore”, a highly-anticipated film the Oscar winner stated he feared wouldn’t be launched at one level because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the movie’s premiere in London on Tuesday night time, Redmayne posed for pictures and signed autographs, delighting followers of the “Harry Potter” spin-off, which is ready some 60 years earlier than J.Ok. Rowling’s books however options youthful variations of among the identical key characters, like Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
“It all the time feels extremely surreal however significantly euphoric this time as a result of the making of this film throughout COVID, it was extremely irritating and massively pleasing,” Redmayne stated on the crimson carpet.
“However there have been moments once I wasn’t even certain it could make it out into the world and so I am thrilled that it has. It is crammed with the whimsy and the magic that I beloved within the Potter movies.”
Trailers for “Implausible Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore”, which is launched subsequent week, present a brewing wizard battle with Scamander and Dumbledore, performed by Jude Regulation, teaming up towards villainous wizard Gellert Grindelwald.
“There are lots of splendidly acquainted characters who evolve, reveal. There are new implausible beasts. They’re actually implausible, some scary, some cute,” Regulation stated.
“There’s a rare coronary heart on the centre of this movie. It is a form of damaged coronary heart and it reveals an terrible lot concerning the empathy that Dumbledore builds on his form of wound, his regrets and it culminates in a rare battle that I believe has a beautiful emotional physicality at its coronary heart.”
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen performs Grindelwald, taking up from Johnny Depp. The Hollywood star was compelled to exit the function in late 2020 after shedding a libel case in Britain towards a tabloid newspaper that branded him a “spouse beater”.
Mikkelsen was additionally on the premiere alongside co-stars Katherine Waterstone, Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol, who reprise their roles from earlier “Implausible Beasts” movies, in addition to Rowling, a author and producer on the film.
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian
Modifying by Alexandra Hudson
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