- We finished each other's sentences.
- Isn't that weird? We're just so connected.
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- I just flipped through to see what I had to do.
- Your line, your line, your line.
- Blah, blah, blah, blah, ooh.
I think I was in Los Angeles, I was working
on something else and it came in
and I had other work I should have been doing
but I just dropped everything.
I mean, it's so exciting you know.
We're only a few months ahead
of the rest of the world with this stuff
because there isn't a series of books.
- It's also a very rare thing
because normally if you read a script for something,
you're deciding whether to do it
or whether to audition for it, and it's
a different thing when you're like,
oh I'm doing this. - I will be doing this.
- And so you can't cut away the sort of
how am I going to do it as you're going through it.
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- Well, I remember when you asked
that question because I got real anxiety,
because I remember the first day
of filming the first film, which was a scene
with Catherine in which this murtlap
bursts out of this case, and I was so nervous,
and I was wearing all of these layers of tweed,
and it was summer. I just sweated so much.
They basically had to stop filming.
They had to bring in an air conditioner
and blast it only on me.
Everyone else was in coats, no one else,
but I was so nervous that they
were having to come and cake.
So it actually genuinely brings
me in hives to think about it.
My first scene in this one was with little Pickett,
the first time you see Newt, and with Zoe, seeing
Leta Lestrange for the first time, and staring at her shoes.
And it was also really weird because the first time
Leta and Newt see each other, David Yates,
our director, had us do this thing where we stare
into the camera, rather than to at each other.
So we're meant to be showing this sort of
whole history of a relationship,
staring straight down the barrel of a lens.
I found it really hard. We had to do about nine other takes.
- I was alone. - I was very lucky.
- Oh, you were alone? What did you have to do?
- All by myself. - All by herself.
- That can sometimes be easier.
- Yeah. - Can be one of those like,
you know what I mean? - Yeah, yeah,
nobody holding me back, bringing me down.
Having to go to your level, just really hard for me.
But you know, when I'm alone, I can just deliver my genius.
- I know at least it's going to be good.
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- They'd already started, I think they'd done
at least four or five weeks, and I got to come in.
And during that time they have costume fittings,
and beard length fittings, and all sorts of things.
Can we trim it a little bit more?
Yeah, a little bit more. And then the whole
of my opening scene, which is with Eddie,
we shot over about a week, didn't we?
- So your first thing was that first look
of all the trailers of Dumbledore.
- Yeah. - I think that's
quite stressful. Your first moment
of the reveal of Dumbledore having to turn around.
I would have been scrutinizing my neck turn.
(laughs)
- So many options.
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- There was a moment, a really wonderful moment
when Newt and Tina and Leta are running away
from these things called matagots,
these spirit familiars, they're kind of
cats in the French Ministry, and Newt's case
falls out of his hand and Tina
basically jumps down to go and protect it,
and then these cats are coming for Newt,
and Leta beats the living hell out of them.
I actually saw a cat that had that,
and it was pretty fricking cool, and it got cut for time.
- I haven't seen the movie yet,
so I am hearing it here first.
Bummer. The ladies were taking care of you.
- They were protecting me.
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- Riding the kelpie, this sort
of underwater Scottish creature that's made of seaweed.
You have to shoot underwater in a tank.
Basically, in order for the takes
to be quite long, they wanted me
to learn to hold my breath really long.
So I was sent to meet this free diver,
this woman who can literally hold
her breath for about 25 minutes,
and she taught me to zen out and become really chilled.
And it was amazing. Over a day, she
managed to extend my breath patterns,
which I was so smug about. And I said to David,
don't worry, we can do 20 minute takes.
I've got this. And then of course,
what I didn't realize, is that
film sets is the most hardcore, quite intense places.
And so the point is, in order to hold your breath
that long, you have to be in an incredibly zen place.
And actually just before the take,
I was going, I could hold it for about three seconds.
That's why it's a very short scene, the kelpie scene.
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- I didn't know that it was available.
- He wasn't offered. I guess when
you're playing Dumbledore, they're like you must know.
- I carried a wand-length piece of twig, basically,
around with me for a whole summer in preparation.
I just wanted to get used to having
this thing and playing with it.
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- It depends how far it goes over the next three,
but in a way, either way it'd be amazing
to have Tom Riddle just appear.
- Yeah. - To see him stay at Hogwarts,
being taught by Dumbledore. Even if it was just
in passing, the cinema. You know what I mean?
These little kids are bullying someone else,
or in a corner. It would be amazing.
- I think, and given that I auditioned
and very badly failed the part of Tom Riddle,
I think it might be the one moment,
if Tom Riddle were to walk past Newt
in Hogwarts, Newt wouldn't be quite so nice
and give him a nudge. A little elbow. A quick one.
- Trip him up. - Or like, huh,
you're going to do it like that?
- You can do it like that. - But that could be
one of the reasons, you see, he gets so messed up.
(laughs)
- Duh, duh, duh.
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