LETA LESTRANGE AND THESEUS SCAMANDER

(zoë KRavitz and CaLLum tuRnER)

KRAVITZ I play Leta Lestrange, and she’s an old friend of Newt’s from Hogwarts. Newt’s gone away and come back, and I’ve become engaged to his brother, Theseus.

TURNER Theseus is the Head Auror at the British Ministry of Magic. He’s really straitlaced, determined, successful, and wants his brother to fall in line, and join the good fight. He knows he’s special.

KRAVITZ Leta’s a Pureblood, which is a big deal. She’s quite a complicated person. She’s got a dark side to her. As the story goes on, you kind of see what it is in her past that’s torturing her. I think the family has a reputation and I think it’s meant to be unclear whether she is good or bad, and what that’s about. She has some dark secrets that do come to the surface. You see why she is the way she is – it’s not just that she is a bad person or anything.