| masterofmystery | 06-10-2017 10:48 PM |
Carmen Ejogo comments on President Picquery's return in 'Fantastic Beasts' sequel
While promoting the release of her new movie It Comes at Night (now in theaters), actress Carmen Ejogo commented briefly this week about whether or not she would return to portray MACUSA president Seraphina Picquery in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel, of which J.K. Rowling recently completed writing the script. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Carmen Ejogo tells us how she found her own inner-nihilism for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ItComesAtNight?src=hash">#ItComesAtNight</a> and what that film means in 2017 - <a href="https://t.co/jUB0V3iI1O">https://t.co/jUB0V3iI1O</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ai0vUsDSPz">pic.twitter.com/Ai0vUsDSPz</a></p>— Den of Geek News! (@DenofGeekUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/DenofGeekUS/status/873578002201923584">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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On a somewhat lighter topic, I just recently rewatched Fantastic Beasts again. Have you heard whispers yet about Seraphina Picquery returning for another wizarding adventure?
Carmen Ejogo: Write all requests to @jk_rowling on Twitter and hopefully she’ll get the message that Seraphina cannot be done without for number two! [Laughs]
When I last saw it, it was actually the day before the U.S. election in November. JK Rowling’s vision of nationalist forces on the rise again seems more timely than ever.
Carmen Ejogo: You know, I’ve made a few films—this is very interesting, because I came up earlier with the theory about Trey, who wrote [It Comes at Night] three years ago about something completely different. It wasn’t an attempt at being political or socially relevant. It was a personal film about his father dying of cancer. And yet, somehow, his feelers were out enough to tap into the zeitgeist. I’ve had that experience, when I think about it, three times. So maybe it’s as much to do with me as it is to do with Trey in how I found myself in repeated pieces of material that really resonate in the here and now.
| Those currently confirmed to star in the sequel include Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Johnny Depp, Callum Turner, and Jude Law. Production for the movie begins this August in the U.K. and Paris. Order J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in the following formats now:
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