 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' cast reveal even more deleted scenes
In addition to the over-dozen deleted scenes edited out from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the cast revealed even more scenes that were cut from the final film, including a possible alternate ending scene with the group and Nicolas Flamel.
Do note there are spoilers for the movie in the video and of the deleted scenes noted, so do heed with caution.
Several cast members, including Ezra Miller (Credence Barebone), Callum Turner (Theseus Scamander), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), and Claudia Kim (Nagini) spoke of a short scene shot at dusk exactly every day for several weeks, where Nicolas Flamel handed the team some croissants in Paris after Grindelwald's grand fiasco in the Parisian cemetery amphitheatre. Quote: Claudia Kim: I ate a lot of croissants. So many. Every single day.
Ezra Miller: This is pretty good.
Claudia: More croissants that were delivered by this amazing baker that figured out the right size – like not too big, not too small in the hands. And it was so buttery. It was literally the best croissant I had ever had. They had it delivered every single day because we had this scene where … am I allowed to say?
Ezra. Yeah, totally.
Claudia: Flamel is handing us these croissants. We shot only for less than an hour a day for that exact scene ...
Ezra: It was the sunset.
Claudia: …because it was the sunset. The sky was so beautiful. It was amazing that they care about those details. They wanted to keep the actual sky. We shot that. So many of us ate so many croissants for weeks. And then that scene was gone.
Ezra: It was at least …
Claudia: At least three weeks.
Ezra: … three weeks.
Claudia: At least three weeks
Ezra: Every single day
Claudia: Every single day for an hour of eating croissants.
Ezra: So they would bring people into work just to try and get this scene in the golden hour. And they did it every day for weeks. And it is 100 percent not in the movie
Claudia: 100 percent gone. It’s just the fat from the croissants that is evidently left in my body.
Ezra: Please. Stop, and don’t even.
Claudia: But it was so funny because …
Ezra: Like you have … right.
Claudia: Nagini eating a croissant.
Ezra: Awesome.
Cluadia: Nagini with a croissant. That was funny.
Callum Turner: Our favorite scene that we shot over 20 days didn’t make the film. It was magic hour, and we went there every single day, getting kitted up for like five minutes of filming. In the reshoots, they were like, “It didn’t work.”
Dan Fogler: It was this lovely scene where Nicholas Flamel comes out at the end of the movie …
Callum Turner: With croissants.
Dan Fogler: … with croissants
Callum Turner: They were flown in from London.
Dan Fogler: And everyone’s sitting there eating croissants. The sun’s there and it’s beautiful.
Callum Turner: Everyone was crying.
Dan Fogler: Everyone’s crying. They’re doing their best acting. And then they get to the edit and they’re just, “We can’t have a whole long scene at the end of the movie. Let’s cut to the end.”
Callum Turner: Like Chekovian, wasn’t it? We just need to get out of this movie.
Alison Sudol: That’s hilarious.
Dan Fogler: Yeah, that’s an alternate ending.
Alison Sudol revealed a short and fun scene where Queenie was trying to get around the French Ministry, from her wobbly feet's point of view. Quote: Alison Sudol: I had a scene with my feet that I really am sad that didn’t get in. First of all, Colleen Atwood made these incredible shoes that were just beautiful. In the French Ministry of Magic there is a sloped floor, so everywhere is sloped And all of the Parisians are just walking around like floating practically – it’s no big deal.
In the thing they’re walking slowly and carefully but Queenie’s a little off her center. She’s a little ungrounded, so I was just walking and losing my footing, and they just did a shot purely on my feet – and it was so funny to see little feet like (wobbly sounds). And it didn’t (make it in the film). It was like, “Where are my feet?” That was all I cared about in the whole film.
Katherine Waterston made menntion of a brief scene where Tina and Leta help Newt in the French Ministry room of records, while Jude Law revealed that an additional scene was shot between Dumbledore and the still-inexplicable presence of Professor McGonagall. Quote: Katherine Waterston: I don’t know if it would be a favorite because I never saw it, but I just found out something was cut where Leta and I take care of Newt, which I thought was a nice balance to the first film where he saves me when I’m in the scary chair.
Jude Law: I had a scene … are we allowed? Are there spoilers in there? I had a scene with another professor, a certain female professor, which didn’t make it which I wish it had because I just love that she’s back in this world. It was at Hogwarts.
Katherine Waterston: Verging on a spoiler.
Jude Law: Well, she’s in the film, but fleetingly. We had this scene where she really got to do the full whole thing. It was really funny.
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Read SnitchSeeker's set visit breakdown of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, including the return to Hogwarts and London, and entering Paris's Wizarding world. Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is the second of five all new adventures in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World™.
At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
The film features an ensemble cast led by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, Poppy Corby-Tuech, with Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. The film is produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram. Tim Lewis, Neil Blair, Rick Senat and Danny Cohen serve as executive producers.
The film reunites the behind-the-scenes creative team from the first “Fantastic Beasts” film, including Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (“A River Runs Through It”), three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig (“The English Patient,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Gandhi,” the “Harry Potter” films), four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), and Yates’ longtime editor Mark Day (the last four “Harry Potter” films). The music is by eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard (“Defiance,” “Michael Clayton,” “The Hunger Games” films).
Slated for release on November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures.
This film is rated PG-13 for some sequences of fantasy action.
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