Eddie Redmayne wands up for 'Fantastic' ride

Eddie Redmayne wands up for 'Fantastic' ride Eddie Redmayne wands up for 'Fantastic' ride Ever met a Niffler? Eddie Redmayne has, and he learned one of the mysterious creature's mysteries from a natural insect eating animal. The Oscar champ snatches a wand in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in theaters across the country Friday, with review screenings Thursday night) and took his Muggle self to a natural life stop in England to plan to play a magizoologist. "There was this insect eating animal that had quite recently been conceived, and individuals were attempting to nourish her and she continued scrunching herself into a ball. The way they would make her uncurl was to tickle her midsection," says Redmayne, 34, whose floppy-haired wizard surreptitiously transports supernatural creatures to the USA inside an unlimited travel case. On screen, the on-screen character duplicates that trap to diminish a charming, neurotic animal called the Niffler of its swarm of took pearls in Fantastic Beasts, a Harry Potter spinoff that meets Newt Scamander as he lands from a ship in New York City, 70 years before Potter's story begins. We should begin with the rudiments: In Fantastic Beasts, set in America around 1926, the non-otherworldly sort are called No-Majs rather than Muggles, and this period is tormented not by Voldemort but rather by the dim wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who has vanished in the wake of threatening portion of Europe. Set in a time of Prohibition, with dictatorship becoming abroad, there's a power battle going ahead inside the Big Apple, with a witch-chasing faction known as the Second Salemers undermining security for a mystical group set on continuing wizarding under a shroud of mystery. Redmayne was pulled in to how Rowling set the story in the midst of genuine occasions. "What I cherished about the Potter movies was the possibility that you could live concurring with the subject of other going on," says the performing artist, whose wizard is joined by fresh out of the plastic new sidekicks: an American witch named Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), who was as of late sidelined from her employment as an Auror, and Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), a No-Maj bread cook who bumbles into Newt's hysterical look for his darling, flighty animals. With Rowling on board as screenwriter, the new film is the writer's way into "recounting a much greater story of an epic skirmish of good versus fiendish and of kind of isolation and suppression and this enormous thought that this Grindelwald character has faith in a predominant race, and that wizards ought to govern over the world," Redmayne says.