Pottermore Talks to Fantastic Beasts Cast at SDCC

Pottermore sat down with the cast of the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at San Diego Comic Con to hear what keeping the secrets is like.

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The biggest Potter news out of San Diego Comic Con came on Saturday during the Warner Brothers panel, which closed out with the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. But true to form, the cast didn’t give much away at all…except for wands, that is. 6500 of them to the entirety of Hall H, when all was said and done.

So how hard is keeping the secrets when everyone you know is beyond excited about this movie? Pottermore sat down with the cast after their panel and asked them to explain. According to Allison Sudol, it’s not easy. “It is tricky because you’re constantly ruling out things in your head. But there’s so much richness to the human elements of this story, the relationships and the characters. There’s so much to talk about, but it’s actually quite fun to keep the mystery because then you know that people are going to go into the film and actually feel surprised. It’s like Christmas and I got you the best gift!”

As for Eddie Redmayne, he feeds off the energy of the fans in the room:

SAN DIEGO, CA – JULY 23: (L-R) Actors Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler attend the Warner Bros. ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Presentation during Comic-Con International 2016 at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2016 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

"“I feel like what’s extraordinary about Comic-Con is that so much energy comes into the city for four days and you feed off that. So, your adrenaline is pumping and pulsating through your body and you kind of feel elated. Slightly like you’re floating on a different planet. You almost can’t take it in; it’s too much visual stimulus. You see people everywhere dressed in costume – I saw a guy dressed as Newt Scamander. I was like “I love it!” And there’s this Funko toy… That’s kind of amazing, although I think I’m going to take mine home and put freckles on it.”"

That’s hilarious, because the biggest complaint I’ve seen on Twitter is the lack of freckles on the Newt Funko. Good to know that Redmayne himself is also committed to fixing that oversight.

Dan Fogler brought out the story, which he’s now told a couple of time, how he was actually there at SDCC last year when his agents called and broke the news he had been cast. Apparently it was the first time Redmayne had heard this though, and said the entire idea of being a nobody humping your wares at Comic Con only to learn you’ve just been handed a role that’s going to catapult you to A-list superstar gave him goosebumps. Fogler called it “surreal.”

"“Last year, I was dragging my comics around and that’s really why I was here – to try and hawk my comics. I was in the audition process for this movie. So when they called me and told me I had the part, I was totally unprepared…. My agent said, “Hey, you know, next year’s going to be a lot different,” says Dan. ‘I was just all tears, like I’d got the Golden Ticket. And now, here we are!”"

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