A new report from the set of
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them reveals that future wife of Newt Scamander, Porpentina Goldstein, was in fact an American Auror who apparently lost her job sometime around the beginning (or before) of the film. She would have worked alongside Colin Farrell's character Percival Graves, who himself is still a powerful Auror working for MACUSA.
The report highlighted the different styles of the two Goldstein sisters - Tina, played by Katherine Waterston; and Queenie, portrayed by Alison Sudol. Oscar-winning costumer designer Colleen Atwood shared her process of creating the 1920s-inspired coats and dresses for the two.
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‘Well,’ she says. ‘Tina had been an Auror. She’s fallen out of that world but I still wanted her to have the feeling of that world. So I gave her an overcoat that’s a little bit loose like an Auror’s coat, but made of more ordinary fabric, as though she’d downgraded from that spectacular leather silhouette of the Aurors. Right from the start, I saw her in soft, cooler colours and warm greys, those sort of tonalities.’
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‘Queenie uses her magic in a different way; she’s got a different energy to Tina altogether and I wanted to dress her in a different way, keeping her light and her colours light: air-like and rosy and warm and approachable,’ says Colleen.
As you may be able to guess by now, Tina and Queenie get caught up in the chaos that ensues when Newt Scamander’s case is opened. Katherine and Alison do a lot of chasing, running, sneaking, hiding and striding in their clothes and Colleen had to plan for that.
‘I have six of Tina’s costume and six of Queenie’s,’ says Colleen, who made duplicates of all the principle cast’s costumes to weather the adventures in the movie. ‘It would have been useless to find one real outfit for each of them from the era, they need so many of them.’
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and starring Eddie Redmayne as Scamander, hits theaters and IMAX this November.