![]() I didn’t want to be one of those actors who come to meetings or auditions dressed up like the character.” “I was slightly embarrassed that I had somehow subconsciously dressed like him. “I didn’t know anything about the story, or about Newt.” Once Yates started filling him in, the actor started to gently nudge his own case away. “I didn’t know!” Redmayne said in his defense. “And as soon as he walked in, I went, ‘Oh my god, it’s Newt Scamander!’” “Literally, when he walked in, it made me think of what Jo told us about Newt,” Yates said. When Redmayne went to the club, he brought along a little Globe-Trotter suitcase that he uses for his own life, to keep his work inside - not knowing that Newt would have a similar signature case of his own. Rowling wrote for charity, there wasn’t a lot known about Newt - he wasn’t fully fleshed out, and Rowling was still in progress on the screenplay, “So I couldn’t actually give him a script to read. Yates needed a quiet spot because he was planning to tell Redmayne about Newt Scamander, the magizoologist who travels the globe researching (and taking care of) the magical creatures of the wizarding world. “And the great thing about having meetings there is that it’s very quiet, because I have a very soft voice, and there, people can actually hear what I’m saying!” “It’s a basement in Soho, and it’s got a big roaring fire, big armchairs,” Yates told Vulture at the film’s premiere on Thursday. On one rainy winter night, the actor took a break from shooting The Danish Girl to take a “top secret” meeting with director David Yates about a then-unknown subject at a club in London. ![]() Eddie Redmayne has a suitcase to thank for his lead role as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. ![]()
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