Warners Bros Pictures new film from J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World franchise, "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" is the second of a total of five new spinoffs from the Harry Potter series. New twists and surprises, more stories inter tangled, maybe scandalous for some and a world that even though is about "Fantastic Beasts" it turns the spotlight into some other types of creatures, like creatures of evil that walk as normal around the world.

In the recent roundtable in Los Angeles we sat with Callum Turner (Theseus Scamander), David Heyman one of the producers, Katherine Waterston (Tina Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), Alison Sudol (Queenie Goldstein), Claudia Kim (Nagini) and Ezra Miller (Credence Barebone).

We don't want to give away any spoilers or bombshells for future sequels to come and as funny as Eddie and Katherine recounted Rowling's modus operandi, they mentioned that she is very mute about giving away any details but if you earn her trust she will give you full backstories about every character.
Katherine: Maybe you earn your stripes with Jo, and if you do a certain number of these films, she starts to reveal more. But we don't know much more than you.

Eddie: Genuinely, we got off a plane two days ago and we found out that a lot of the next film is going to be set in Rio de Janeiro when she announced it on Twitter. When we signed up for the film, we thought it was going to be four films, and then at a fan event she announced it was going to be five films. But, she does come on set and she'll whisper into our ears.

Katherine: She'll say, "I shouldn't tell you this, but ..."

Eddie: Exactly. You see it happening to other actors across while you're trying to do your scene.

We also discussed how the actors took on their roles.
Eddie Redmayne: It was really about finding Newt's character in the first film. Jo was really specific in the script about the way he moved. He walked a certain walk. He had this Buster Keaton-esque quality. He wouldn't look people in the eye. Some of the things he said and the way he talked reminded me of friends who have mild Asperger's on the spectrum.

And the work with Callum Turner (Theseus Scamander)?
Eddie: The weird thing is, Callum was born about a hundred meters from where I was born. There was a very scary moment on set which I looked across and saw him talking to my older brother, who was really good at sports at school, was a bit of a schoolboy hero. I didn't have to do much acting. But I felt great love for Callum. He's a wonderful human being. Actually there wasn't a huge amount of acting required in my relationship with Callum.

Katherine Waterston: I saw this little bit of a scene that they did together early in the shooting of the film with no sound, someone was running through it for playback on set, and they did a mannerism – one after the other – totally unaware the other had done it. It was amazing, like they had some inherent, symbiotic vibes going.

We get a very different Credence in this movie than we did in the first one. How much of that is your input and how much is the script?
Ezra: Zero of it is my input, I hope. That is my prayer, my solemn prayer. I mean, it's not like Shakespeare, man. I can't just go ahead and improvise everything. This is JK f--king Rowling, you know what I mean?

Did you get to talk to JK and say how about if Credence does this instead?
Ezra: No. Sometimes on the day, David (Yates) is really interested in feeling out the pattern of a scene, the blocking, and if we feel collectively that something might work better in a slightly different way, we'll come to that decision in a very collaborative, non-hierarchical process. It's really an open field. David puts aside a lot of time to cater to all of our various idiosyncrasies and ridiculous viewpoints that are mostly wrong.

It's amazing seeing and hearing the contrast of how one actor gets to know the character and how they prepare for it before getting to the set. In this case Eddie and Katherine took a complete different approach than Ezra and Claudia as they tell us about it here.

Before you started filming, when you were working with the script, did you get together to discuss how you were going to approach the difference in the relationships between the two films? How you were going to work opposite each other?
Eddie: That's a good question.

Katherine: Yeah. No. (laughter) That's a good idea.

Did they explain to you the background story of these two characters? How they became friends?
Claudia: Not so much, no.

Ezra: It's actually a zone where we're given a lot of free reign and we did a lot of work, just us, honestly. We both put in a lot of time as individuals doing our own

Claudia: He made such an effort.

Ezra: That's true. At first I chased Claudia down so we could build our own backstory time, but then eventually I felt like ultimately it was mutual. But at first I was the aggressor. I was like, "We really need to hang out. I need to take you to some pagan gatherings. WE should be having at least two meals together a week. I'm gonna call you on Friday, and if you're not too tired, you're gonna come and stay up all night with me at the solstice sacrifice – and it's gonna be rad. You're gonna learn a lot about ...

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