Earlier this month it was announced that Jude Law is joining J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World to play the young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2, and the actor has been chatting to the BBC about getting the opportunity to portray the iconic wizard.
“Excited. Only Excited, by the whole prospect. Yeah, Curious, excited. Actually you know that’s a good point. I think all good jobs have an element of fear, because you want to do well by it. You want to please people and you want to please yourself… My first port of call I hope is to meet J.K. Rowling and to talk exactly about that and who he is and who she wants him to be and learn a little bit more about her vision of this great man as a young man.”
Meanwhile, asked by The Wrap about Dumbledore’s sexuality and J.K. Rowling’s comments that she always thought of him as a gay man, Law responded: “I don’t know, I read that too — first of all, you have to realize I haven’t read any script yet. But that’s another layer to what creates this great wizard we’ve come to know and love.”
Fantastic Beasts 2 is slated for release on November 16th 2018, and will see the return of Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander), Katherine Waterston (Porpentina Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), Ailson Sudol (Queenie Goldstein) and Ezra Miller (Credence Barebond), as well as Zoe Kravitz as Leta Lestrange, Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, and Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander.
Originally published April 30, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
