‘INVESTIGATE BEFORE PICKING A SIDE’
Ezra Miller has come out strongly in his defence of his upcoming Fantastic Beasts film, which is being bashed for casting Johnny Depp, among other things
Actor Ezra Miller has slammed those criticising his upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, saying they should watch the movie before talking about it on social media.
The film has come in for severe criticism over several issues, particularly over the casting of Johnny Depp — the actor has faced censure for allegations of assault on former wife Amber Heard — as the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. “Why don’t you wait until you see the film before you start talking s**t on Twitter? Or wait to make up your own mind about something for once in your life. Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Follow your heart, and really, really investigate situations before you identify yourself and pick a side, and start throwing things at the opposition. Because that’s what’s totally screwing everything up right now. And it polarises us. We’re all human, and there’s a lot of things we can agree on,” Miller told TotalFilm.
The Justice League (2017) actor proceeded to address the film’s purported lack of focus on the hinted-at homosexual relationship of Grindelwald and Dumbeldore. “It’s a funny idea to me that every form of representation has to look the same... I find Dumbledore’s queerness extremely explicit in this film. I mean, all around. He sees Grindelwald, his young lover who’s the love of his life; he sees him in the Mirror of Erised. If that’s not explicitly gay, I don’t know what is,” Miller told the magazine.
The actor, who plays wizard Credence Barebone in the franchise, also praised author JK Rowling for announcing Dumbledore’s sexuality in the first place. PTI