While promoting the debut of her upcoming HBO drama series
Big Little Lies, actress Zoe Kravitz opened up for the first time about joining the
Fantastic Beasts film series, starting off with her very short cameo in
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as Hogwarts student and friend of Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange.
Kravitz commented about her audition process with star Eddie Redmayne, both of whom were trying to decipher the short and vague script they worked with to figure out more about the characters, as well as when production for the second installment begins later this summer.
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You’re also a part of the Fantastic Beasts films, and we hear your role is going to be even bigger in the sequel.
ZOE KRAVITZ: Yeah, it’s very exciting! Yeah, it wasn’t much, in the first one.
Have you started shooting that yet?
KRAVITZ: No, that starts in June or July, I think. It’s sometime in the summer. I’m very excited. The one day I was on set for that, and also for my audition process, being able to work with Eddie [Redmayne] and David [Yates] was incredible. The script was very under wraps, so even signing onto it, I hadn’t read the script. I just went off of who was involved, and J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter films, so I knew it was going to be incredible, especially with how involved J.K. is. And then, I got to see the film, after I was already signed on, and it exceeded my expectations. That was a really interesting experience, to sit back and watch a movie that you loved, and then get to walk out and say, “I get to be in that!” It’s a very cool thing.
Have they told you how much more you’ll get to be in?
KRAVITZ: I think there’s a few ahead. The relationship between Leta and Newt Scamander is a complex relationship, so I think there will be a lot of time for that to grow and develop, which will be fun.
Have you gotten a peak at the script for the next film yet?
KRAVITZ: I know nothing! I have an idea, based off of when I auditioned, but I know nothing. Even when I went to go do my chemistry read with Eddie, he was trying to help me piece together what was happening in the scene that we were reading. He doesn’t get to see anything either, so he was like, “I think based off of this line and this line, and what we shot here and here, this is what’s going on.” We had to guess. It was funny to watch him, trying to piece it all together.
For those interested,
Big Little Lies debuts on HBO in the U.S. on February 19, 2017.
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