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**My Kind Of Crazy** · 10-06-2017, 10:09 AM

Fantastic Beasts 2 Cast Now Includes Jessica Williams | Collider

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Filming is underway on Fantastic Beasts 2, and Warner Bros. has announced some new additions to the cast. Previously, we knew that a large portion of the original cast would be returning including Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein, Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein, Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski, and Ezra Miller as Credence. Pottemore reveals that Carmen Ejogo is also set to return as MACUSA President Seraphina Picquery, so hopefully they’ll actually give her something to do in this movie. Additionally, Jude Law is on board to play young Dumbledore and (sigh), Johnny Depp will return to play Grindelwald.

Among the new cast announcements is that Brontis Jodorowsky (El Topo) is set to play Nicolas Flamel, who you may recall as the eponymous Sorcerer of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone who discovered the stone that could produce the elixir of life. Whether or not he’ll have that stone in his possession when we meet him in Fantastic Beasts 2 remains to be seen. Other new additions include Zoë Kravitz as Leta Lestrange (glimpsed in a photo in the first movie); Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander; Claudia Kim as a woman in a wizarding circus; William Nadylam as Yusuf Kama; Ingvar Sigurdsson as Grimmson; Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Skender; Kevin Guthrie as Abernathy; Wolf Roth as Spielman; Victoria Yeates as Bunty; Derek Riddell as Torquil Travers; Poppy Corby-Tuech as Rosier; and Cornell S. John as Arnold Guzman. Harry Potter devotees will recognize the names “Travers” and “Rosier” as belonging to Death Eaters.

Additionally, Fiona Glascott (Brooklyn) and Jessica Williams (The Daily Show) have joined the cast in undisclosed roles. Williams is a Harry Potter fan and earlier this summer, she told Stephen Colbert how she met author and screenwriter J.K. Rowling:

And here was her reaction today at the news of being cast:

Next Fantastic Beasts film reveals new characters – including Nicolas Flamel

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New characters and cast members have been announced for the new Fantastic Beasts story, and we suspect you may recognise a few of the names.
Nicolas Flamel, a character originally mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, will appear in the new Fantastic Beasts film. Flamel, who is known in the wizarding world as an alchemist who discovered the Elixir of Life (based on the real-life alchemist of the same name), will be played by actor Brontis Jodorowsky. Flamel joins a big list of new characters confirmed to feature in the film.

So far, only a few names have been revealed, but some surnames will be familiar to Harry Potter fans. Joining the cast will be Wolf Roth as a character called Spielman; Call the Midwife star Victoria Yeates as Bunty; Derek Riddell as Torquil Travers; Poppy Corby-Tuech as Rosier; and Cornell S John as Arnold Guzman. The names ‘Travers’ and ‘Rosier’ stand out in particular; these last names turn up in the Harry Potter series and belong to two Death Eaters who served Lord Voldemort.