Pottermore Interviews “Fantastic Beasts” Stunt Coordinator

Pottermore has released a new interview with a Fantastic Beasts crew member.  Acclaimed stunt coordinator, Eunice Huthart spoke with the Pottermore Correspondent about the fantastic stunts in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.  Unfortunately, the correspondent “can’t, in good conscience, tell you about them.”

What the interview does tell us is that Huthart and her team of twelve action scene experts have done a lot to bring the film’s characters to life– and that Eddie Redmayne has an affinity for dangerous stunt work.

‘Eddie’s great. We just tell Eddie what to do and he does it,’ she says, sitting cross-legged on the floor next to me. ‘I have never had to talk him into doing anything. Eddie’s just like, “Come on guys, what are we doing now? Bigger, faster, harder!” It’s more a case of me telling him, “Eddie, we can’t do that!” We need to make sure he can work tomorrow, you know.’

Huthart is also excited to work with director David Yates:

My whole job is delivering what David thinks up, so I have to pick my moments and just bombard him with 200 questions whenever I can. It helps me set the action for this film especially, because it’s so character-based. We’re not just doing action for action’s sake here, we are doing it in character. Some of the stunts on this film are great. I’m just here the whole time thinking, I get to work with David Yates, how lucky am I? It’s mental.

Too bad the Pottermore Correspondent won’t share the details!

To read the full interview, visit Pottermore, here.