SnitchSeeker.com - Eddie Redmayne discusses how he chose Newt Scamander's wand for 'Fantastic Beasts'

Eddie Redmayne discussed the process by which he chose Newt Scamander's wand for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, leading with the first movie out this November.

The Oscar-winning actor put a lot of thought into what kind of wand Newt should have - something simple that doesn't involve killing any creatures. More on that can be read below.

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Eddie Redmayne: ‘I mean… the most exciting moment of this job is the moment of getting a wand. The art department comes up with these wand sketches and you just pinch yourself really aggressively and try to have a really cool face when you go: “OK, my wand choice, let’s have a look…”’

‘I liked the idea that it was very simple, Newt’s wand.’

‘It’s made of organic materials. Some of the choices were fossilised, but I didn’t like the idea of the death of creatures. Not for Newt. There was something slightly sort of Mother of Pearly about this one and the simplicity of the wood, I liked that.

'He’s quite a humble guy, I think, Newt, and he’s certainly not an elaborate guy. Emotionally he is perhaps but not in his aspirations. So that was the wand I liked. But it also looked like it had been whittled, it was the sort of thing you could imagine a craftsman working on.’

One thing to note: a previous trailer revealed that Newt was expelled from Hogwarts, and as such by protocol, his wand should have been destroyed. Mystery surrounds the wand Newt carries in the movie - did he manage to keep and/or repair the original wand he got from Ollivander's at 11 years old that was used at Hogwarts, or is this a new wand that he got under dubious circumstances (or even created himself)?

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay book can be pre-ordered now via the following links: Amazon.com (hardcover) | Amazon.com (Kindle) | Amazon.co.uk (UK hardcover) | Warner Bros. Shop (hardcover)