Already in 2018 on the Grindelwald Crime Poster, William Nadilem is back in the third episode of Fantastic Beasts, The Dumbledore Secrets. For AlloCiné, it’s back to the beginning of this crazy adventure.
During our visit to Warner Bros.. Studio Tour London – Creating Harry Potter Last month we were able to ask a few questions to William Nadille, the French translator of the magician Youssef Kama. Nominated for Fantastic Beasts 2, he was surprised to be back with the sequel, The Secrets of Dumbledore, which is currently in theaters.
How did you get into Fantastic Beasts 2, did you have to go through a long casting?
It’s been a bit of a joke as we look at it remotely more and more often, so we sign up – I did not go to school, it was new – alone or with a partner and send it. An actor can do many things! More and more, when it comes to studio movies or big budget movies, the script is very confidential, so we sign a kind of privacy statement.
All I did was ask Jill about Jack with Joe. I had no idea who Jill was, her relationship with Jack, brother, lover … I had no idea! Just a few weeks later, they called me and said, “We have to go and do a second round in London.” I gradually realized what I was doing, so I had no pressure.
At the third meeting I had pressure because I knew I was going to beat David Yates. Here, David Yates, we know who he is, we know what he does, so I started to get nervous. Then my agent called me, asked me if I was sitting or not, I said, “If he’s happy, I can sit down.” He announced to me that I had a part and that the next day, I had to go by plane to come and do the costume tests.
It was natural for me to watch Harry Potter.
What was the world of Harry Potter like for you before you hired this movie and what does it represent now?
The world of Harry Potter is something that has bothered me a lot because of magic. Witchcraft is what I grew up with: my father is African, from Cameroon, and my mother is Indian, from Réunion. So I grew up with these two cultures where witchcraft is really important in life. (…) It was natural for me to watch this magical world of Harry Potter.
What I found was that it was a global phenomenon. I discovered the fans, what impact they had on people. I have discovered that 20 years have passed since there were people who were children when they discovered this world and who are now adults who have retained this witchcraft and this is what touches me most when people are not afraid to keep their part. Childhood (…).
My role has grown.
Have you had stick lessons?
So we have training on everything if we ask. I did not have the specifics of the baguette, but I talked about it with the director, the author. It so happened that in the theater, at Rue Blanche School, we had lessons in martial arts, epic, saber and foil. And I pointed out that martial arts carry a stick.
Were you looking forward to returning to the second episode?
Absolutely not, nothing is guaranteed. But everything always depends on how things are going, with the public, with the production. Unlike Harry Potter, we do not accept works that are pre-written. Here J.K. Rowling and her co-workers write for the movie, so the story is written at the same time, and moreover, even before, when we started this story, the role I play changed during the filming, it grew, which bothered me. A lot. So there was nothing guaranteed: I was surprised, I was happy, I hoped, but I was not told “okay, I’ll be there later”.
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