In the Harry Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the mantle of J.K. Rowling's leading man has been passed from Radcliffe to Redmayne. AP: Your first blush with the Harry Potter world came much earlier, didn't it? Redmayne: I definitely thought having a slight ginger gene there must be some distant relative of a Weasley I could be. Redmayne: It came in the most wonderfully cryptic, slightly sort of Harry Potter-y way. She told me where Newt came from in her imagination and aspects of her own life.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 10, 2016 16:52 UTC