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At the film's premiere in London on Tuesday
night, Redmayne posed for photos and signed autographs,
delighting fans of the "Harry Potter" spin-off, which is set
some 60 years before J.K. Rowling's books but features younger
versions of some of the same key characters, like Hogwarts
headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
"It always feels incredibly surreal but particularly euphoric
this time because the making of this movie during COVID, it was
incredibly stressful and hugely enjoyable," Redmayne said on the
red carpet.
"But there were moments when I wasn't even sure it would make it
out into the world and so I'm thrilled that it has. It's filled
with the whimsy and the magic that I loved in the Potter films."
Trailers for "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore",
which is released next week, show a brewing wizard war with
Scamander and Dumbledore, played by Jude Law, teaming up against
villainous wizard Gellert Grindelwald.
"There are a lot of wonderfully familiar characters who evolve,
reveal. There are new fantastic beasts. They're really
fantastic, some scary, some cute," Law said.
"There's an extraordinary heart at the centre of this film. It's
a sort of broken heart and it reveals an awful lot about the
empathy that Dumbledore builds on his sort of wound, his regrets
and it culminates in an extraordinary battle that I think has a
wonderful emotional physicality at its heart."
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen plays Grindelwald, taking over from
Johnny Depp. The Hollywood star was forced to exit the role in
late 2020 after losing a libel case in Britain against a tabloid
newspaper that branded him a "wife beater".
Mikkelsen was also at the premiere alongside co-stars Katherine
Waterstone, Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol, who reprise their roles
from previous "Fantastic Beasts" films, as well as Rowling, a
writer and producer on the movie.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Alexandra
Hudson)
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