all right everybody welcome to the
worldwide press conference for fantastic
beasts and where to find them
so excited to have these people with us
today I'm honored to be standing up here
with them and I'm going to introduce
them to you right now I've been aware
since the end of Harry Potter that there
was still a huge hunger for more and
that story was finished but as I said at
the start of this conference I always
had some ideas about newt and i was
intrigued by newt and the truth is that
when I was asked will you write more at
the back of my mind was Newt so much
about this process has been so top
secret that it's top secret to us our
scripts were sent in putting safes at
the end of the day but all for a reason
which we understand which is there is
such an appetite for the world and the
universe and the stories that Joe
creates that keeps in this world of so
few surprises it's wonderful to try and
keep those secrets when you work with JK
Rowling you know that her passion is her
characters and she is fiercely
protective of her characters and when
you are given the responsibility of
representing one of those you feel so
well protected because it's almost like
playing a real person because you have
all of the resource and the imagination
of Joe to work with it's been confirmed
that Dumbledore is in the sequel I'm
curious in that movie will he be
portrayed as openly gay and will you
explore his romantic relationship with
Grindelwald well no this is I'm very I'm
very comfortable with the question and I
can't tell you everything I would like
to say because this is obviously it's a
five-part story so there's lots to
unpack in that relationship I will say
that you will see Dumbledore as a as a
younger man and quite a troubled man
because he wasn't always the sage he was
always very clever and he was but we'll
see him at what I think was the
formative period of his life um as far
as his sexuality is concerned um watch
this space
I was as a big Harry Potter fan I felt
like I was running the risk of being
compelled to loathe myself because if I
were to disappoint Harry Potter fans I
would have to join their ranks as is my
tendency to what as we said we were such
fans of the books in the films of course
you don't want to be the guy that comes
along and schmuck becomes some sort of
ruins it so there was definitely there
was a sense of expectation on ourselves
that we put in but I think that
galvanizes you and I think it makes you
work harder and and the people around us
created this environment in which it it
that actually disappeared while we were
making the film and we felt free to play
and to come up with ideas and to really
great freedom and it was only when we
started doing press but everyone was
like how you feeling it's quite a lot of
pressure right there that we just sort
of started gently sweating and happen
for the fireworks oh thanks this is just
the beginning I know what's coming so
this is chapter one and I think people
will like what's coming I hope so I am
proud of it that's the most you can say
as the creator I think we all feel very
proud of what we've done together and if
you can say that you can say everything
this is being creative because this is
something I really wanted to write and I
hope that when people see the movie they
will understand that it grew out of
certain things that are very important
to me anywhere in the world at the
moment
I try not to focus too much on what
other people think about the work it's
healthy to be interested in what other
people think because you learn from what
people like and don't like but
ultimately you have to be true to what
you want to you want to do the work that
you want to produce thank you all for
being your congratulations on the film
and do your colleagues and everybody in
the room JK Rowling it's a real treat to
have you here
thank you all