'Fantastic Beasts' Star Eddie Redmayne on Joining the Wizarding World, Working With J.K. Rowling3 of 17
A lot of people are really excited to finally get to see some American wizardry. Now that you've had a chance to be in the [wizarding] world, does it feel American?
It does, yeah. I know there's all this ruckus over the “No-Maj” side of things. I was doing press at the time, so I took quite a hit. I was like, "Guys, don't worry, the word ‘muggle’ is in the film.” It's different — sort of lost in translation. But J.K. Rowling really grounds things. She's so three-dimensional with how she creates the world.
There are Americanisms, and Newt is an Englishman in New York in the 1920s. He's been in the field for a year, and suddenly he arrives in New York and everything is so huge. I remember the first time I went to New York when I was about 8 or 9 and opening the window [at my hotel] and [seeing] Saint Patrick's Cathedral in front of [me] and buildings just flying up. [I remember] being kind of totally overwhelmed by it. There are certainly things I related to in this American-British thing.
It does, yeah. I know there's all this ruckus over the “No-Maj” side of things. I was doing press at the time, so I took quite a hit. I was like, "Guys, don't worry, the word ‘muggle’ is in the film.” It's different — sort of lost in translation. But J.K. Rowling really grounds things. She's so three-dimensional with how she creates the world.
There are Americanisms, and Newt is an Englishman in New York in the 1920s. He's been in the field for a year, and suddenly he arrives in New York and everything is so huge. I remember the first time I went to New York when I was about 8 or 9 and opening the window [at my hotel] and [seeing] Saint Patrick's Cathedral in front of [me] and buildings just flying up. [I remember] being kind of totally overwhelmed by it. There are certainly things I related to in this American-British thing.