Katherine Waterston explained the process of making a film, comparing her current movie
Steve Jobs to the upcoming
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in which she plays Tina Goldstein.
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You’re doing a "Harry Potter" prequel right now, and I feel like there are similar issues of being respectful and protective of a universe that a lot of people love. Do you feel that?
Katherine Waterston: It's really the same answer. My responsibility is to the script and to my director and to my castmates. I feel like with most jobs, there's plenty of time to panic about all of that where you're in the period between the last day of shooting and when the movie comes out. I feel like when I'm working, I can keep my head down and try to stay focused and not let those thoughts gain ground and make my heart pound. You just don't want to invite them in because that's obviously the worst thing that can happen to you while you're working, to become debilitated by your own fears. So I just I try not to think about those things while I’m working. Thank you for reminding me. [laughs]
I do what I can to think of it as an incredible positive. Because usually when you work on a film, you think, my God, is anyone going to come out and see this? Of course, you don't know if anyone is going to like it and you hope that they will, but we do know that people want to see this. In a certain sense, it’s like when you get into the semifinals or something and you've got the fans who are thinking about the next game and hoping you do well. So I’m trying to live there. I’m trying to be optimistic about it and think that they’re rooting for us.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them's first installment, written by
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and starring Eddie Redmayne with Katherine, releases in theaters and IMAX in November 2016.