Watch J.K. Rowling excitedly discuss 'Fantastic Beasts' in new featurette

Eddie Redmayne has thoughts, too!
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Watch J.K. Rowling excitedly discuss 'Fantastic Beasts' in new featurette
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Accio a new featurette for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

In it, J.K. Rowling excitedly chats about the origin of the story and how character Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, relates to her typical literary heroes. 

"My heroes are always people who feel themselves to be set apart, stigmatized or othered," Rowling says. "That's at the heart of most of what I write and it's certainly at the heart of this movie." 

Redmayne is also featured, discussing how the magizoologist "feels more at home with creatures than he does with human beings."

He later gets "embroiled" in a new adventure, which Rowling teases will have "implications for the whole wizarding world." 

Doesn't it always?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hits theaters this November. 

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Yohana Desta

Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.


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