In cinemas - “Fantastic beasts. Crimes of Grindelwald "- the second of five films about new adventures in the magical world of J. Rowling. "Telenedelya" met in London with the leading actor Eddie Redmain and Jude Law, who played the young professor Dumbledore Za Rowling, like behind Eddie's stone wall, for the first time you play one character twice. How do you feel?.

Sensations brings to the site director. In the case of David Yates, who worked with the Harry Potter films, we feel like one family from the first picture.. It is great liberating.

Jude, was it easy for you to reincarnate as a young Professor Dumbledore?.

I felt responsible, because he is so well known to fans of books and we love them! True, no one really knows how Dumbledore was in the range of forty with something years and a hundred with something that he is in the works of Harry Potter (laughs). But knowing how he was becoming, I tried to reveal certain features in his character in his youth, which made him just such a person.

How do the characters treat your children? Jude Law: What amazes me - there were so many different rules that we didn’t discuss in our youth. My children and their friends question everything, and this is a new approach for me.. I was not eager to refute the norms, and my teenager son asks at every step: “Why is that? ".

Are you proud of your heroes in Dumbledore's “Fantastic Beasts ...”?.

Jude Law: Very proud. In particular, the fact that he got into the franchise from books Rowling. We live in a world that adores expensive family films, and here the best talents in this field meet..

Eddie Redmayne: A writer fiercely defends his projects - we are behind her like a stone wall. Joe has already earned so much money and fame that she has no other motivation than to love the world she created and the characters in her books..

Has she often been on the set?.

Eddie Redmaine: First Joan came to say hello, and then came spontaneously to shoot from time to time. She talked about the relationship between characters that are not disclosed in the script, which greatly helped in working on the role.

Jude Law: Rowling arrived with a separate 7-page Dumbledore story that described him in that period.. Written specifically for me than I was touched. I wonder even if he will enter the printed version of the book after the premiere of the film?.

Aged Paris Was it easy to recreate Paris at a film studio in London?.

Eddie Redmain: Our version of Paris is very different from the modern. The buildings were artificially aged, because by the beginning of the XXI century the facades there had been thoroughly cleaned.. Before that, a layer of centuries-old mud lay on them, and the French were not particularly embarrassed, and the city was given a special charm to the city.. We shot street scenes in the summer, and we had small cafes, milk shops and butchers shops..

Jude Law: I was very seduced by delicious croissants, but each time I was so disappointed: they were fake plastic.. By the way, they say, this site was the largest in the history of the film studio in Leavesden (a suburb of London, where the film set Warner Bros. Studios. - Note. ed. Strings of streets lasted, it seemed, forever.

Such realistic scenery helped in the work?.

Jude Law: In the 1940s, most tapes were shot on location.. Then they all began to build decorations on the territory of their own film studios.. Then - to build indoor decorations inside the studios, so as not to depend on the weather and lighting.. Now, slowly but surely, directors are returning to real streets, because it is very difficult to fake a lively atmosphere, despite the development of technology and special effects.. Easier and cheaper to shoot everything in real life.

In the first part you filmed in New York. In the second we see Paris. When will something typically English appear?.

Eddie Redmain: This time we got to our native Britain and filmed part of the plot in London, in the City. But what exactly, I will not say.

We stayed in the real world In the second part of "Fantastic Beasts" will be echoes of what is happening in the modern world?.

Jude Law: The scenarios are very modern Rowling. As a woman and mother, she raises topics that are relevant specifically for her: fear of all who are “not like us,” “stranger” and so on. We all see it today in the news..

Eddie, how does Newt Salamander find a place in this new and frightening world?.

Eddie Redmayne: Mainly communicates with the world of magical animals. This is his comfort zone.. Through these creatures, Newt builds his own ways of communicating with other people.. Fantastic creatures - his guide to the world of Muggles. What he never did - didn’t work on someone’s side. And in this film he is forced to make a choice: go to the side of darkness or light.. It seemed to me a very important issue..

While working on the film, did you really feel like magicians?.

Eddie Redmayne: I had the opportunity to play with small figures of the nuchler (long-nosed fantastic animal. - Note. ed. ) between takes ... But otherwise, of course, we stayed in the real world.

What do you remember working with Johnny Depp, who plays the main villain?.

Eddie Redmain: His masterful reincarnation. Grindelwald has turned out to be an incredibly bright character. I don’t think that Johnny himself played someone like that before!.