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Chris Evans @ChrisEvans

Oficially wrapped on Avengers 4. It was an emotional day to say the least. Playing this role over the last 8 years has been an honor. To everyone in front of the camera, behind the camera, and in the audience, thank you for the memories! Eternally grateful. “You gonna eat — The Captain America star, appearing to anybody else?” officially say goodbye to his iconic role —Eddie (Tom Hardy), asking his violent alter ego, in Venom EVANS: IMAGES; DAN MACMEDAN/GETTY

“Most likely.” —Venom (Tom Hardy), being honest HAWAII FIVE-0

“This place has got more trafic STREIBER/CBS; : ART than Kanye’s Twitter feed. I’ll explain to you who Kanye and what Twitter is later.” —Danny (Scott Caan), cracking to Steve “I’m kinda of the market.

(Alex O’Loughlin) as the door opens Owen and I haven’t exactly VENOM at a crime scene, on Hawaii Five-0 slapped a label on it, but, uh, there’s been a fair amount of (2); MASI/SONY : FRANK other kinds of slapping.” —Amelia (Caterina Scorsone), sharing too much, on Grey’s Anatomy

“Lady, we are out there GREY’S ANATOMY fighting every day, losing people, while you hide in here like the

freakin’ Lizard of Oz.” SJODIN/ABC : CRAIG —Marcos (Sean Teale), confronting an incognito reptilian mutant, on The Gifted ; FRESH OFF THE BOAT THE OFF ; FRESH

“Sometimes you forget how

stupid the rest of the world is. : BOB D’AMICO/ABC; Like, how all anybody cares about is whether some snotty British boy can fly.” —Jessica (Constance Wu), expressing

disgust over her book being outsold by THE GIFTED “Well, actually, I Harry Potter, on Fresh Off the Boat have four, but that’s pretty standard : FOX; animation stuf.” BIG MOUTH —Jessi (Jessi Klein), getting meta in her misunderstanding of what a five-finger discount is, on Big Mouth : NETFLIX

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FEATURES NEWS AND COLUMNS 23 Hollywood’s 3 Greatest Untold Sound Bites Stories: Harry Potter Edition 6 Get magical The Must List (and unknown!) details about J.K. 20 Rowling’s wondrous News Wizarding World. Read for a rundown of BY EW STAFF New York Comic Con. 70 104 Susan Harris The Bullseye The Emmy-winning writer-producer reflects on Soap, REVIEWS The Golden Girls, Benson, and more. 78 BY KRISTEN BALDWIN Movies 84 TV 94 Music 98 Books (COVER) DANIEL RADCLIFFE: MURRAY CLOSE/WARNER BROS.; (THIS PAGE) PE PAGE) (THIS BROS.; CLOSE/WARNER MURRAY RADCLIFFE: DANIEL (COVER) TER MOUNTAIN/WARNER BROS. MOUNTAIN/WARNER TER ON THE COVER Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore and Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Photograph by Jaap Buitendijk © 2018 WARNER BROS. ENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; WIZARDING WORLD™ PUBLISHING RIGHTS © J.K. ROWLING; WIZARDING WORLD™ TM & © WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.; WIZARDING WORLD™ CHARACTERS, NAMES, AND RELATED INDICIA Daniel Radcliffe ARE TM AND © WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. as Harry Potter

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RYAN GOSLING & DAMIEN CHAZELLE

The actor, 37, and director, 33, talk to EW’s Devan Coggan about shooting for the moon

What was it about Neil Armstrong’s story that

initially intrigued you? GOSLING: JUAN NAHARRO GIMENEZ/WIREIMAGE; CHAZELLE: EMMA IMAGES MCINTYRE/GETTY

DAMIEN CHAZELLE At the outset, I was surprised to learn Neil and Janet had lost a daughter right before they moved to Hous- ton for NASA. I know that’s something Ryan gravitated to right away: What kind of search for meaning might be propelled by that loss, and could a loss like that actually have propelled Neil FIRST MAN to the moon? La La Land’s Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling take one The film has a real giant leap with this intimately cosmic portrait of Neil sense of claustropho- bia, especially when Armstrong, covering both his home life with his wife, Janet Neil is in the (Claire Foy), and his historic mission to the moon. (Oct. 12) space capsule.

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Ryan, what was it like to shoot in such a tiny space? MAKING A MURDERER PART 2

RYAN GOSLING I quite liked being in the After almost three years, the Emmy-award-winning capsules and the true-crime docuseries returns to update viewers space suits. Nobody on Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey’s fight talks to you, and you to overturn their contentious murder convictions. don’t have to talk to anyone else. It’s a Part 2 ofers an emotional and at times fascinating nice form of isolation. look at the post-conviction process, going well [Laughs] It was an beyond the headlines you may have skimmed incredible experience these past few years. (Netflix, Oct. 19) and opportunity to sit in these capsules and look out the window, reading dialogue that’s directly pulled from the BODDI/GE TOMMASO LANSBURY: IMAGES; GETTY VIA BANK PHOTO BRAVO/NBCU MAYER: comms recordings.

How did you approach filming the actual moon landing, which is an event pretty much every person on Earth has seen before?

GOSLING I was able to have the actual recordings from the moon landing in my ear while we were shooting, so I would hear the actual Buzz Allan, Aldrin [and] mission Dolores, control talking in and my ear, which was Steven extremely surreal, to Avery say the least. We’ve all seen the famous IMAGES; TTY footage, but [we MAKING MORE tried] to go even Here are four things EW learned about season 2 from the series’ creators, more in-depth, in documentarians Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. BY CHANCELLOR AGARD PART 2 A MURDERER: MAKING terms of what those first steps down the ladder felt like or what the surface Part 1’s real-world There’s a major new Part 2 doesn’t shy away Developments in the looks like. popularity directly player in the story. from criticism of the show. appeals process halted Part 2 CHAZELLE We tried affected . the production schedule. to always show a Kathleen Zellner, Avery’s Some opponents voiced : NETFLIX; RICCIARDI AND DEMOS: MARK DAVIS/GETTY IMAGES perspective to the “It really changed the new post-conviction law- concern that the first sea- There’s a reason TV audience that they’d world we were going yer, is “the engine of the son left out key evidence networks and the crimi- never seen before. back to document,” says story,” Demos explains. pointing to Avery’s guilt. nal justice system That felt like the Demos. “We land the “She’s the most active “I wouldn’t say that we felt don’t share calendars. whole point of mak- [premiere’s] opening at character—she’s reinves- a need to address it…but “Hypothetical release tigating, she’s going to the opportunity arose dates kept getting ing this movie, to the courthouse steps in Manitowoc County the crime scenes, she’s because of Kathleen,” says pushed back as the story try to recast these with a rally with people testing evidence and Ricciardi coyly. “A particu- became more dynamic famous events in on both sides. This is searching for answers lar individual, who was and more active, and it a totally new light a courthouse that, for about what happened to fueling this idea that we’d just made sense to keep and to really see 20 years, there was one [victim Teresa Halbach].” left stuf out, named a filming,” says Demos. them from Neil and dominant narrative.” Demos anoints Zellner as piece of physical evi- But she promises what Janet’s eyeballs as the audience’s new con- dence, and it just happens all fans want to hear: much as possible, duit: “In many ways, she’s that Kathleen Zellner [had “Where Part 2 ends, there instead of from the doing the same things been] scrutinizing this is a resolution of sorts.” distance of history. people want to do.” piece of evidence herself.” Hey, we’ll take “of sorts.”

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THE SLASHER CRASHER How Eastbound & Down star Danny McBride became the new voice of Halloween. BY CLARK COLLIS

Some horror fans were and let the story fall surprised to learn the onto younger shoul- TY IMAGES new Halloween was ders. We didn’t want written by [you and that. Laurie Strode... David Gordon Green]. is not a footnote. The What was that like? story is about her!

We’ve moved What was it like seeing through our careers Michael Myers on set? having tough skin and knowing how to The first time they believe in [ourselves]. called us to set to see As cheesy as that him, they had him in sounds, that’s how the back of this hall- you have to operate. way, standing there I like to be an under- motionless, with the dog. I like to prove mask on. I came in people wrong. and instantly was like, “I don’t want to go Is it true you wrote the back there. I’m fine.” HALLOWEEN film to heavily feature Laurie Strode without knowing if Jamie Lee AGES; HAMM: CINDY ORD/GETTY IMAGES; MIRREN: RUNE HELLESTAD/CORBIS VIA GET Looking for a horror film to keep you Curtis would return? on a knife’s edge this pumpkin season? We were always Jamie Lee Curtis’ steely Laurie Strode aiming for her. Some once again battles masked killer movie [reboots] Michael Myers in a sequel loaded bring back cast with twists, turns, and plentiful members to have misuse of kitchen utensils. (Oct. 19) them wave goodbye ES; ZUCKERBERG: KELLY SULLIVAN/GETTY IM

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Paul Dano makes his directorial debutt adapting this ’90s novel about ’60sma m ri- tal strife, starring Carey Mulligan as a desperate Montanan housewife and Jake Gyllenhaal as the husband who leavees her and their teenage son (Ed Oxen- bould) to fend for themselves whilehe h helps fight a wildfire. As the flames raage, these performances roar. (Oct. 19)

more for me, the interest whath t masculinityli it DOUBLE TAKE was in that nostalgic whip- was, what a nuclear lash, where you realize a family was defined as. portion of your life is over There weren’t the and won’t come back. opportunities for men [My character] has woken and women...to express up with this role of mother who they truly were Carey Mulligan, 33, and homemaker and wife, and what they actually and Jake Gyllenhaal, 37, having completely lost explain what Wildlife wanted. So [my charac- ignited in them as actors her identity in that. And ter] is pushing against I don’t feel that way, but I convention to break into do sometimes hear a song a space that felt wild Carey, as a mother in that I listened to when and dangerous, which is real life, did you learn I was 24 and think, “Holy what I think real freedom something different hell, it’s a decade later. feels like to someone. about motherhood from How?” [Pointing to Gyllen- I don’t think it’s about Jeanette’s story? haal] We met when I was not loving and not want- 22. Now we’re doing this. ing to be there. In fact, MULLIGAN Having to admit My gosh, that’s a whole it’s quite the opposite. to your kid that you lot of time that’s gone by. All this convention is can’t control everything, pushing on these two that’s such a terrifying Jake, your character is only so much, someone has thing. As I have such in the film a short time to shift something. And young children, I hadn’t as he leaves his family to he does, and as a result really thought about it go fight fires. How did she does, and then you connect with that? until I made the film. But the truth bubbles up.

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GOOD AND MAD by Rebecca Traister

Getting constructively angry sounds like being a little bit pregnant—not medically impossible, maybe, but not exactly viable either. Award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister (All the Single Ladies) disagrees; in Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, she makes the case that a certain kind of fury isn’t just justified but necessary. “It is the force that injects energy, intensity, and urgency into battles that must be intense and urgent if they are to be won,” she writes. And in the process, women “must come to recognize our own rage as valid, as rational, and not as we’re told it is: ugly, hysterical, marginal, laughable.” She traces a long line of female activists to help make her case, from 19th-century sufragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and civil rights hero Rosa Parks to the 2017 whistle-blowers who exposed Harvey Weinstein. The book isn’t hectoring, a lecture, or even strictly a how-to; instead, it’s a thoughtful exploration of the many ways in which anger has served various social movements, and who, exactly, society allows to express it. But if reading it makes you want to get out and do something—register new voters, right a wrong, run for ofice—then Mad is more than good. —Leah Greenblatt

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SIGALA CANYOUEVERFORGIVEME? BLACK- BRIGHTER DAYS Get acquainted Starring Melissa McCarthy and based on the real life of literary forger Lee Israel, this bio- with this graphical dramedy (a favorite at the Toronto 25-year-old British Film Festival) traces the writer’s struggles to newcomer, publish her work and her subsequent des- whose debut perate descent into deception. Not to be hyperbolic, but you may not forgive yourself : FOX SEARCHLIGHT ISH album—which pulls in feature for missing this bizarre biopic. (Oct. 19) Not many shows can vocals from artists pull of the stories like Kylie Minogue, ABC’s stellar family sit- Flo Rida, and com still efortlessly Meghan Trainor— CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME tells in its fifth season. earmarks him as a For every genre-staple promising EDM growing pain (Junior’s producer with ear- taking a gap year! worms to spare. The twins get separate bedrooms!), the show finds a way to drama- tize challenging headlines through the lens of the very real Johnson family. There’s

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OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 15 They look ferocious, but inside they’re just chicken raised with no antibiotics ever.

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

THE DECOR Resting Witch Place Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s production designer, Lisa Soper, reveals her freakiest finishing touches

THE FOOD CREEPY MAGIC DOLLS

: DIYAH PERA/NETFLIX “The Spellmans decorate for Halloween NOTRICK,ALL TREAT with poppets,” says Soper. “Wrap an old sheet around pillow stufing, sew up the ends, and add buttons for eyes Jack-o’-Lantern Stufed Peppers by country singer and TV host and yarn for hair.” Trisha Yearwood are a whole new twist on the Great Pumpkin

1 Preheat oven to beef is browned, 2 4 Spoon about 1 cup

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA OF ADVENTURES CHILLING INGREDIENTS 350°F. In a small to 3 minutes. Add beef mixture into saucepan, cook the cream and cook, each pepper and

IMAGE; 1 cup small elbow macaroni according stirring occasionally, place, cut sides up, macaroni to package directions until mixture is on a baking sheet. 1 tbsp. canola oil for al dente. Drain reduced, about 10 Place pepper tops 1 medium yellow and keep warm. minutes. Remove on baking sheet. SPOOKY SHOES onion, chopped from heat and stir in Bake until peppers “Every time someone rubs Zelda 3 cloves garlic, 2 In a large cast-iron cheese until melted, are fork-tender, about the wrong way, she steals their left finely chopped skillet, heat the oil about 1 minute. Stir 30 minutes. shoe, hexes it, and adds it to her wall,” says Soper. Re-create the look 1 lb. lean ground beef over medium. Add in cooked macaroni. with stick-on shelves and stilettos. 1 tsp. kosher salt onions and cook, stir- SERVES 6 Active Time 30 minutes ring frequently, until 3 Cut each pepper ½ tsp. black pepper Total Time 1 hour, 15 minutes 1 (14-oz.) can translucent, about 5 around the stem and fire-roasted diced minutes. Add garlic remove to create a lid. “This Jack-o’-Lantern tomatoes, drained and cook, stirring Remove the seeds Stuﬀed Peppers recipe is ¾ cup heavy cream constantly, 1 minute. and, if peppers do not not hard to do, and they Add ground beef and sit flat, trim bottoms are the cutest!” says 2 cups shredded Yearwood. “These little cook, stirring to crum- slightly; just be care- sharp cheddar guys would also be fun cheese ble, until it starts to ful not to cut a hole to make with kids.” 6 medium-size brown, 3 to 5 min- in bottom of peppers. orange bell peppers utes. Stir in salt and Using the tip of a Trisha’s Halloween POWER PLANTS pepper. Add toma- small serrated knife, Spooktacular special airs “Rosemary honors the dead, so hang Monday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. it around the entrance,” says Soper. toes and cook, stir- cut a face like a jack- on Food Network “Vases of marigolds and chrysanthe- ring frequently, until o’-lantern into the mums will also protect you from the

JACK-O’-LANTERN STUFFED PEPPERS: FOOD NETWORK; YEARWOOD: TOMMASO BODDI/WIRE TOMMASO YEARWOOD: NETWORK; FOOD PEPPERS: STUFFED JACK-O’-LANTERN side of each pepper. less-friendly departed.”

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THE COSTUMES 2 RE-CREATING 8 5 RIVERDALE 11 The ladies of Riverdale are predicted to be among the most popular costumes this year. Here’s how to get your Betty and Veronica on. 3 9

BETTY COOPER CHERYL BLOSSOM VERONICA LODGE JOSIE MCCOY Lili Reinhart Madelaine Petsch Camila Mendes Ashleigh Murray

1 THE MAKEUP 4 THE MAKEUP 7 THE MAKEUP 10 THE MAKEUP Keep everything light and sweet: Embrace the classics: groomed Don’t be afraid to get dramatic: Play up the eyes, says Vit, who “Betty wears taupe and vanilla brows, porcelain skin, and Vit suggests using liquid liner recommends color-rich palettes shades on her eyes, and pink on matte red lips. Try: MAC Matte to create Veronica’s signature by Tarte and Urban Decay. the cheeks and lips,” says River- Lipstick in Chili, $18.50; maccosmet- cat-eye. Try: Kat Von D Tattoo “Use lots of bright colors on dale makeup department head ics.com Liner, $20; sephora.com the eyes.” Try: Urban Decay Juliana Vit. Try: Sugar Petal Tinted Distortion Eyeshadow Palette, $24; Lip Treatment, $24; fresh.com 5 THE CLOTHES 8 THE CLOTHES sephora.com Stick to a palette. “Cheryl’s Go dark or go home. “To dress THE CLOTHES 2 THE CLOTHES signature colors are red, black, like our preppy, chic New York 11 Consider vintage-like pieces for and white,” says Sorensen- girl,” says Sorensen-Kjelstrup, Focus on eye-catching details, the perfect girl-next-door look. Kjelstrup. She suggests a red choose “a fitted A-line black, even if you go with simple “Start with a simple ’50s or leather biker jacket over a purple, or blue dress.” silhouettes. Find skinny jeans ’60s-inspired top or sweater,” black crop top and matching with a twist, says Sorensen- says the show’s costume Kjelstrup. “Something studded, leather shorts. 9 THE ACCENTS sequined, or a fun color.” designer Rebekka Sorensen- Do the matchy-matchy thing: Kjelstrup. 6 THE ACCENTS “Veronica accessorizes with a THE ACCENTS Remember the 3 s’s: serpents, small necklace, belt, and match- 12 3 THE ACCENTS spiders, and studs. Sorensen- ing shoes,” says Sorensen- Add cat ears. “It’s one of her Add “blue, pink, or green shoes,” Kjelstrup recommends serpent Kjelstrup. “Add her signature iconic accessory pieces,” says says Sorensen-Kjelstrup, like patches, spider brooches, black or navy cape and a small Sorensen-Kjelstrup. ballet flats or Converse sneakers. and studded stilettos. black purse, too.” RIVERDALE : ART STREIBER/THE CW (4); COCKTAIL: IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO GETTY THE DRINK Elementary Elixirs When it comes to refreshments, there’s no great mystery to solve: Serve friends The Greyhound of the Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes- inspired drink with a fiery kick

1 Rim a tall Collins glass with “Put down that Sherlock Hoolmes pipe INGREDIENTS the salt and pepper flakes. for a smoked-salt virgin Grreyhound that’s so delicious it’s practtically spooky,” says Tim Federle, author off Are You Smoked sea salt and chipotle pepper 2 Add ice and the liquid There God? It’s Me, Marggarita. flakes for cocktail rim ingredients, stir, and serve. 4 oz. grapefruit juice Recipe adapted from Federle’ss book. Grapefruit soda water (like LaCroix) to fill Cocktail consultation by Codyy Goldstein. 1 tsp. hot sauce

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NEWS STORY New York Comic Con 2018 Roundup From Game of Thrones gossip to Bufy reboot chatter to James Wolk nearly naked in a shower, this year’s convention ofered insights into Sall our favorite subjects. BY LYNETTE RICE

SHE JUST CAN’T QUIT WESTEROS: WHILE ATTENDING NEW YORK Speaking of holy-crap moments for con- ( Clockwise from top left ) Comic Con on Oct. 6 to promote her upcoming feature Dark vention-goers, Sony screened 35 minutes of Sophie Turner; James Phoenix (out in 2019), Sophie Turner admitted that she’s not quite its new animated flick Spider-Man: Into the Wolk, Josh Dallas, Josh Bowman, Jason Lewis, ready to say goodbye to Sansa Stark, the Game of Thrones role that Spider-Verse, which features an excitingly dif- and Joel de la Fuente; David Boreanaz; Jack made her a star. “I still don’t accept that it’s done,” Turner, 22, told ferent webslinger. In exchange for the Quaid, Melissa Rox- burgh, Cailee Spaeny, EW’s Tim Stack during a one-on-one panel. “It’s basically been the surprise look, producers Phil Lord and Chris Virginia Gardner, and majority of my life. I’m still very much processing it.” At least she’s Miller required the crowd at Madison Square David Ajala; Kiernan Shipka; Taika Waititi, got a fiery new gig and a whole new legion of fans to distract her. Garden to repeat the words “I promise not to Drew Goddard, and One of the main highlights at NYCC was the surprise debut of tell any Sony executives I saw this.” Simon Kinberg Phoenix footage, which helps establish the physiological origins of Elsewhere at the Con, there was a two- Turner’s Jean Grey. “We mainly studied schizophrenia and person- minute peek at Neil Marshall’s reboot of ality disorder,” Turner said of the X-Men film. “When you see the Hellboy, fresh footage from Peter Jackson’s movie, or if you’ve read the comics, you’ll know why.” And Marvel adaptation of Mortal Engines, new trailers for fans will be happy to know that, at EW’s Visionaries panel, Aquaman and Star Trek: Discovery, a screen- Phoenix director Simon Kinberg credited fellow panelist Taika ing of Outlander’s season 4 premiere, and a Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok as a major influence on the project. generous look-see at Netflix’s upcoming

20 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. “The ’90s sitcom Salem is iconic. He’s a meme, he’s sassy Salem,” Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka said of her character’s feline friend. “So we did something different. We have three cats playing Salem: Shaq, Boomer, and Edward.” In some cases, an unexpected treat came in the form of a simple-but-sweet quote. While there to promote CBS’ SEAL Team, star David Boreanaz said he had nothing but love for the planned reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by 20th Century Fox TV (which has yet to secure a home). “If someone can step in my shoes and play my character, f---, go ahead!” said Boreanaz, who played Buffy’s love interest Angel. “I think that’s great, because I ain’t putting on that makeup anymore!” During EW’s Breaking Big panel, Jack Quaid admitted he only recently saw his mom, Meg Ryan, in When Harry Met Sally... “When your mother has one of the most famous orgasm scenes of all time, you do not jump to the film,” said the actor, who stars on Amazon’s upcoming superhero show The Boys. “I immediately called her and I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry I missed this movie.’ ” While participating on EW’s Brave Warriors panel, James Wolk (Tell Me a Story) shared an awkward story about a nearly nude shower scene he recently shot for his new CBS All Access drama. “They couldn’tld ’t fit theth camera ini the shower, but they needed me to lean up against the wall and scream. So they came up withw this idea. ‘We’re just going to have thee cameraman put his hands out, and then you hold his hands like they’re a wall.’ So noow I’m [wear- ETTY IMAGES ing] a privacy brief, holding this grown man’s hands, screaming andccrying.” Sadly, Turner couldn’t share any delicious tidbits from her finaldayson GoT. Security was so tight, sheexplained, tthat a special device was used to literally shoot down marauding drones. But she did remember to keep a memento—and it wasn’ts the heavy fur coat and the necklace with the big circle that she wore all of last seasson. “I hated that!” she said of the outfit. “I dragged it around, and no, I didn’t wannt to carry it

TURNER, BRAVE WARRIORS, VISIONARIES, BREAKING BIG:FOR ENTERTAINMENT LARS NIKI/G WEEKLY BOREANAZ: (4), ROY ROCHLIN/GETTY IMAGES,SHIPKA: NOAM GALAI/GETTY IMAGES home.” She took a corset insteead. X

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From to , EW reveals the untold stories behind the Wizarding World. Hop on our broom and join us for a magical mystery tour down memory lane. Newt Scamander on the case: Eddie Redmayne takes aim in his London work- shop, which houses a refuge for injured magical creatures

NOBODY EXPECTED JOHNNY DEPP TO SEND THOSE PHOTOS, though in retrospect they probably should have. Director David Yates was finishing filming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them when the images arrived in his email. Depp had yet to shoot his climactic scene: Magizoologist hero Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) reveals that the fugitive dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald has been hiding in plain sight the entire film, disguised as dapper auror Percival Graves (played by Colin Farrell). The Farrell-to-Depp switcheroo was to be the film’s biggest shock when it came out in theaters, but first it was the director’s turn to be surprised. Much like Depp had done when crafting his takes on Willy Wonka and Capt. Jack Sparrow, the actor huddled together with a makeup team to design his own creative look for J.K. Rowling’s villain. “I had an image in my head of the guy,” explains Depp, who felt emboldened in his creative choices by a Skype chat with Rowling about the role. “She said, ‘I can’t wait to see what you do with him.’ It was beautifully left as this open gift.” So Depp sent photos of himself as Grindelwald to Yates. His first-draft makeover was “slightly more extreme” than where Grindelwald ended up, the director recalls. “We saw this character as a combination of poet, rock star, visionary, and sociopath, beguiling but lethal,” says 55-year-old Yates, who also helmed the final four Harry Potter films. After some back-and-forth (at one ( Above ) Grindelwald’s evolution was just a Defense Against point a “foppish, romantic look” was considered and rejected), the Dark Arts: small example of how the Fantastic Beasts the production embraced Depp’s concept of Grindelwald as a At Hogwarts, team leveled up for the sequel. Where to (2) BROS. BUITENDIJK/WARNER JAAP PAGE) THIS AND SPREAD (PREVIOUS Professor Albus pre-WWII vision of Aryan fascism—an ultra-white, pasty-faced Dumbledore Find Them bore the burden of launching a (Jude Law) finds platinum blond, with an undercut haircut and pale mismatched himself under new Wizarding World franchise with a eyes. “I almost felt like he’s maybe two people,” Depp says. “He’s surveillance and relying on Newt different cast, setting, time period, and twins in one body. So a gamy eye is more like the other side of to take on characters. While the movie was largely a Grindelwald him—a brain for each eye, and he’s somewhere in the middle.” success—with solid reviews and $814 mil- When Depp’s Grindelwald was unveiled in the final moments lion worldwide at the box office—members of Fantastic Beasts, fans were indeed stunned, but also concerned. of the filmmaking team quietly felt that The dark wizard looked so strange. Was he supposed to be come- the sequel could (and should) be an dic? So for the second title in the planned five-film franchise, improvement over its predecessor. The Crimes of Grindelwald, the evil wizard’s appearance was “soft- “When we made the first film [the ened and refined,” made to look more natural. Judging by the actors] all thought it was great,” recalls enthusiastic fan reactions to the film’s final trailer at the end of Ezra Miller, who plays troubled young September, the tweaks worked. wizard Credence Barebone. “But the ( From top ) Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) at her old Hogwarts desk; Rosier (Poppy Corby-Tuech) presents a mysterious skull; Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) befriends a Leucrotta

That elevation began with Rowling’s script, which largely shifts the action from New York to Paris—a new locale, sure, but returning to Europe feels more Potter-esque. And while the first film was focused heavily on Newt, the sequel is more of an ensemble piece that deepens returning characters, introduces several new ones, and plays like a life-and-death, wartime noir thriller (no whimsical three-minute scenes of Newt demonstrat- ing a mating dance at the zoo with a horny Erumpent). The setup is that Grindelwald escapes while being transported to a new prison and rallies an army of supporters with his pledge to unify the Wizarding World and rule Muggles. That leaves Hog- warts professor Dumbledore (Jude Law), the dark wizard’s former childhood friend (and perhaps more?), to enlist his expelled former student Newt and, by extension, his American friends—rebellious auror Tina (Katherine Waterston), her tele- pathic sister Queenie (Alison Sudol), and affable No-Maj Jacob (Dan Fogler). But that’s only the beginning. “The script is labyrinthian,” says Redmayne, whose introverted beast-wrangler is a bit more comfortable in his own skin this time around. “You’re going down this maze, and Jo [Rowling] is weav- ing the stories together with such intricacy. Along the way, connections to Harry Potter and secrets are falling at your feet. And there is one…” The 36-year-old Oscar winner pauses, knowing he’s treading into heavy spoiler territory. “I got to the end and my jaw dropped. There was one thing I didn’t see coming.” “Darker” is a word the cast uses a lot. “Complex” and “fast- paced” are others. The film is more, well, adult—The Crimes of Grindelwald may be the most grown-up of all the Wizarding World titles. EW caught up with Fogler shortly after he saw the completed film for the first time, and he was as excited as any fan stepping out of a cineplex. “It reminds me a lot of The Empire Strikes Back,” the 41-year-old says. “The first movie is so positive. It’s sweet and lovely. But this time everybody is really put under fire. People are gonna see this, like, a hundred times just to get department heads—Yates, [production designer] everything. They’re going to be going nuts that they have to wait Stuart Craig, [costume designer] Colleen Atwood— for the next one. And Jude Law, oh God, he’s perfect.” were all like, ‘It’s not good enough, it has to get better, Ah, yes. From the moment that first photo was released of Law

-TUECH: JAAP BUITENDIJK/WARNER BROS. (2); it has to get way better, and here are all the things that as a dashing 45-year-old Dumbledore, even the most discriminat- were wrong with it.’ [Crimes] is a serious push by ing Potter purists admitted he was spot-on as the beloved wizard some of the greatest artists in the game to elevate in a (and some are rather hot for teacher, with hashtags circulating

KRAVITZ, CORBY BROS. PICTURES WARNER FOGLER: way that’s inspiring to watch and be around.” like #Dumbledaddy and #Dumbledamn). Adding Dumbledore to Show and spell: Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) conducts an orchestra of death at an amphi- theater beneath the Lestrange Mausoleum

Johnny Depp has big—and relatively unknown—shoes to fill as the title villain. BY JAMES HIBBERD

The Wizarding World’s notorious being slathered with exposition or being Colin’s—the more silent moments—for me, outlaw Gellert Grindelwald was condescended to. So I was pretty familiar that’s when I would see bits of Grindelwald. brieﬂy revealed two years ago in with them and hugely impressed. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Based on some things your castmates his name is right there in the title of its new What initially drew you to playing Gellert have said, some fans will make Donald sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald. Yet actor Grindelwald? Trump comparisons. Is that fair? Johnny Depp, 55, has remained silent about I found the character fascinating and com- I don’t see Donald Trump comparisons at his crucial character—until now. Below, Depp plex. My instinct reaction is he was like a all. To me there’s something almost childlike lends insight into the mysterious villain human version of Finnegans Wake: James in [Grindelwald]. His dream is for the wizard his castmates say is the movie’s most unex- Joyce’s novel begins and ends in the middle world to stand tall and above. It’s a fascistic pected revelation. of a sentence. You come in in mid-thought element, and there’s nothing more danger- and then it’s a very confusing ride. ous than somebody who is a dreamer with JAAP BUITENDIJK Were you a Harry Potter fan at all before a specific vision that’s very strong and very all this? In the first film, Colin Farrell played dangerous and he can make it happen. But I read the books when my kids were smaller Grindelwald, disguised as Percival Graves. no character wakes up and goes, “I’m going and watched the films with them. The Did his performance influence things at all? to do the worst things possible today and /WARNER BROS. books were superb. What J.K. [Rowling] It does and then it doesn’t. As Grindelwald be evil as hell.” I do believe Grindelwald is delivered is really a dificult thing to do as a [was pretending to be] Graves, his an oddly likable character. writer—to create a whole new universe and responsibility is to portray Graves. I suppose a set of rules. You never felt like you were the more contemplative moments of Unlike Voldemort, who ruled by fear and force, I’ve heard Grindelwald is charming and manipulates people to get what he wants. Yeah, exactly. He psychologically motivates people to his ends.

What does Grindelwald think of Dumbledore at this point? I think he’s just waiting. He’s looking forward to [their inevitable showdown]. I think there’s probably a lot of residue left over from days this prequel pleased Rowling, too, who spent more time visiting gone by. They quite bonded, you know? the set during this shoot than the first film. When you loved someone, and cared for someone, and it arrives into a [combative] You might assume Dumbledore would be the least mysterious arena—as it has with Dumbledore and part of this tale since we already know so much about his past and Grindelwald—it’s very dangerous when it future. Not so. “There are things to resolve from Albus’ life, some becomes personal. of which we know from the story, some of which we don’t know There’s been lots of focus on Dumbledore’s about yet,” Law, 45, says, and then comes up with an even better sexuality and how much should be in the tease: “This is a good riddle. One of the reasons Dumbledore film, but what about Grindelwald’s? trusts and likes Newt so much is Newt understands and forgives I think it should be left up to the audience to beasts and monsters. And there’s a part of Dumbledore—only a feel it first. It makes the situation with Dum- bledore all the more intense. I think there’s a part—that sees himself as a bit of a beast.” jealousy with Scamander. He sees Scaman- The friendship between Newt and Dumbledore might feel a bit der as Dumbledore’s protégé—his boy, in a wistful for Harry Potter fans: It’s like a glimpse into what might way. That in itself is enough for Grindelwald have been if the future Hogwarts Headmaster had somehow been to want to take Scamander down in a way that is ferocious and eternal. able to carry on his friendship with the Boy Who Lived into adulthood. Yet Newt, unlike young Potter, can quickly spot Another controversy surrounded your Dumbledore’s “for the greater good” manipulations. “One of the participation in the film [due to a domestic-violence allegation by his things I love about Newt is he has this naivete and gentleness on ex-wife Amber Heard]. The director, the surface, but he’s got quite a steel core,” Redmayne says. “He studio, and Rowling issued statements adores Dumbledore, but he also knows when Dumbledore has in support [of you]. What was that like crossed a line and isn’t afraid to call him on it.” for you, and is there anything you’d say to fans who are on the fence about Newt’s whip-smart auror love interest Tina is back as well, supporting the film? going on an unauthorized (naturally) mission to hunt down I felt bad for J.K. having to field all these vari- Credence in Paris. “She’s more confident this time. No one is ous feelings from people out there. I felt bad questioning her intellect and instincts,” Waterston, 38, says. Yet that she had to take that. But ultimately, there is real controversy. The fact remains I her character’s love life is a mess thanks to some long-distance- was falsely accused, which is why I’m suing relationship misunderstandings. While fans know Newt and Tina the Sun newspaper for defamation for eventually end up together, the duo clearly have no idea. “It’s fun repeating false accusations. to play something out where the audience is one step ahead and J.K. has seen the evidence and therefore knows I was falsely accused, and that’s why Newt and Tina are the clueless ones,” the actress says. she has publicly supported me. She doesn’t take things lightly. She would not stand up if she didn’t know the truth. Brothers in arms: Anything else you want fans to know? Newt and It’s a major responsibility, being handed the his sibling rival keys to this car. My intense loyalty is to not Theseus just J.K. and David Yates but to the people (Callum Turner) who go and see the films as well, the people draw wands who have invested their lives into this mag- at the Père nificent, incredible world J.K. has created. Lachaise Cemetery I went full tilt and headfirst into the char- in Paris acter knowing the responsibility that I had. It’s good to take the audience on a ride

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LIAM DANIEL LIAM something they haven’t seen before. Newt also has a tense relationship with his older brother, Theseus, played by Callum Turner, who broke his wand during his first day on set during an enthusiastic screen test. Theseus is an uptight careerist and Head of the British Ministry of Magic’s Auror Office, who’s pressuring the rebellious Newt to fall in line with the wizarding government’s plans. “Theseus wants his brother to stand up and fight [Grindel- wald],” says Turner, but the two have conflicting ideas on how to #resist. That Theseus is engaged to Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz)—Newt’s schoolboy crush—com- plicates matters as well. Yet perhaps the most intriguing new character is the one fans only discovered Tina Goldstein last month: Nagini, a circus performer who (Katherine Waterston) gives customers one heckuva transforma- and Newt march tion act as she morphs into a massive through the French Minis- snake. South Korean actress Claudia Kim, try of Magic 33, wasn’t told which character she was Records Room playing until she arrived for her last audition. A Harry Potter fan since sixth grade, Kim instantly realized Nagini was cursed Once on set, Kim worked with a contor- disagree with that perspective, and note to eventually become Voldemort’s murder- tionist to perfect her act, infusing her that Kim simply gave the best audition for ous serpent. “I was speechless,” she recalls, performance with varying degrees of a standout role. “Claudia Kim is a living and then was told that for this final test, snake-ness. “David would give directions god,” Miller declares. “You’re about to get she had to pretend to transform into a like ‘Can you do 2 percent more snake?’” your head blown off. Prepare yourselves for snake—on the spot. “I instantly felt the she says, laughing. Nagini. This is a tragic and beautiful story.” heartburn, a lot of insecurity, but you have Since her casting was announced, how- Miller should know, as it’s his character, to empty your head and let your instincts ever, some have objected to a person of Credence, who teams up with Nagini to take over,” she says. “If I find [the audition color playing a character doomed to sub- form a power couple of sorts: two lost tape] I will destroy it!” servience. Those close to the production souls with unique magical abilities they KRAVITZ, KIM: MARK SELIGER MARK KIM: KRAVITZ,

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Claudia Kim William Nadylam Callum Turner Zoë Kravitz A mysterious Maledictus— A French-African Brontis Jodorowsky Newt’s by-the-book, ladder- Theseus’ fiancée (and the carrier of a blood wizard who has been An alchemist who created climbing older brother who Newt’s boyhood crush), curse—who can tracking Credence the Sorcerer’s Stone and has risen quickly to become who bears the burden of transform into a giant Barebone for years lived hundreds of years the Head of the British Minis- a notorious surname snake at will. for a secret reason. drinking the Elixir of Life. try of Magic’s Auror Ofice. (remember mad Bellatrix?). ( Left ) Nagini (Claudia Kim) and Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) huddle on a Parisian roof- top; ( below ) Queenie Gold- stein (Alison Sudol) goes missing

can’t entirely control. “Credence has joined the circus, as one does when you’ve killed your foster mom and fled the country,” Miller, 26, says glibly. “He’s trying to figure out who he is. They’re two people who don’t really trust anyone who are learning trust for the first time.” Another challenged couple (actually, every major character in Crimes of Grindel- wald is arguably part of a couple, and that’s why the Paris setting is so apt) are Jacob and Queenie, who flee America due to its strict policy against No-Maj/wizard relationships. And guess which charis- matic politician is surprisingly in favor of such unions? “Grindelwald actually Indeed, the film’s title promises crimes. And that this dark wizard’s deeds sounds like he’s all for love—if you love a are wrapped in divisive rhetoric at rock-concert-style rallies peppered with Muggle, you should be allowed to be with populist appeal sounds kind of, well, familiar. Is Rowling making— them, and you should be allowed to unintentionally or not—some kind of modern political point? Sudol certainly marry,” Fogler reveals. “But wizards, he sees one. “The film is terrifying that it’s so relevant,” she says. “We really feels, should be on a pedestal. This is very need to focus on trying to find commonalities amidst the instability of the tantalizing to some.” world’s climate. When a lot of crazy things are happening, it’s very easy to So could the nicest couple in this story, lose true north.” Jacob and Queenie, join Team Grindel- Which brings us, quite appropriately, back to Newt, the story’s moral com-

/WARNER BROS. (3) BROS. /WARNER wald? They’re not saying, of course, pass. At one point in the movie, Newt tells his brother, “I don’t do sides.” but Sudol notes: “Grindelwald’s like That’s almost a revolutionary stance in hyper-partisan times. But it’s also one staring at the sun—you’re not supposed that, given the forces at play, is perhaps unsustainable. “You really get the

JAAP BUITENDIJKJAAP to, but he’s hard to look away from. He sense that Newt’s always gonna make the right choice,” Fogler says. “In this does very, very bad things.” day and age, that’s very refreshing.” ILLUSTRATION BY MARY GRANDPRE BY MARY ILLUSTRATION © WARNER BROS. ENT. ALL RIGHTS ALL ENT. BROS. © WARNER

“Itwastoughtoknowhowmuch GrandPré places the cover’s At the request of the Scholastic GrandPré wasn’t hired to create a to put in or keep out. If we action somewhere on the out- sales force, Levine suggested Harry Potter logo, but as a fan of weren’t seeing enough of Dum- skirts of Hogwarts: “You can see J.K. Rowling change the title to typography, she asked if she bledore, perhaps we’d put him on the castle to the right and the for- “something that brings the magic could try lettering Harry’s name. the back,” says GrandPré. “I est in the background. I see it as more obviously forward,” he One sketch later, a brand was wanted you to be able to find the an open corridor where things recalls. The proposal: Harry Potter born. “The lightning bolt just RESERVED thing you’d just read about in the can happen in and out of the col- and the School of Magic, which worked on that P,” she says. “I book, like a treasure hunt.” umns and Harry can fly through.” Rowling considered briefly. didn’t even try it anywhere else.” It was the ﬁrst time American readers ever saw an image of Harry Potter, and yet 20 years later, the cover of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone still holds some surprises. Illustrator Mary GrandPré, creative director David Saylor, and editor Arthur A. Levine revisit a cover sketch of the ﬁrst book— and the decisions that would change everything. BY MARC SNETIKER

GrandPré proposed a trio of A crisis was narrowly averted when Saylor and Levine first options for each book cover. For presented Rowling with the book’s finished artwork. The author Sorcerer’s Stone, “there was one “was so in awe that she wanted to touch it,” Saylor recalls, but she did that had the three- GrandPré’s waxy pastels were unfixed, a technique that makes headed dog guarding the trap- them richer but more fragile. “I said, ‘Be careful!’ and she pulled her The final door. It was really good, but it forefinger away, and it was just covered with pastel,” says result of just wasn’t right for a first book,” Saylor with a laugh. “It didn’t spoil the painting, but it was a moment GrandPré’s says Saylor. (See next page) of panic. She was just so entranced by seeing it in person.” work By the end of Deathly Hallows, ( From far left ) One of Mary we know Harry on a deeply GrandPré’s personal level, but you’ve said alternate that you wish you’d known him Sorcerer’s Stone covers; that way earlier in your pro- an unused cess. How would that have sketch of the changed your art? Mirror of Erised; Her- When I was doing [Sorcerer’s mione, Ron, Stone], I wanted to bring a and Harry in quirky style to it because there Half-Blood Prince are so many fun creatures and interesting settings. In the beginning, I didn’t see it as deep and emotional as it got to be later on. If I had known more about Harry [earlier], I might have brought a little more realism into it, which I think happened, actually, to the books—the writing evolved, We often ask writers about that story’s theme. If you could and I evolved as an artist. the first sentence they wrote go back and assign a color to on a project. For you, an illus- Sorcerer’s Stone, what would Ron and Hermione are trator, what was the first it have been? probably the two biggest char- brushstroke for Harry Potter? I would have to go with purple. acters who aren’t pictured in Oh gosh, it would probably [Creative director David Saylor] Sorcerer’s Stone. Do you recall be more of a pencil line than a and I would talk about what coming to that decision? brushstroke! I guess I would color we should give each book I was actually revisiting the have started drawing an oval [starting with Goblet of Fire], book this weekend and realized shape to draw Harry’s head. A and it’s hard because you want those two did not make it into quick, loose, geometric, simple to go with a mood but also with the chapter sketches, and it body shape of Harry. what the color represents. Pur- surprised me! I think perhaps ple is mysterious. It’s warm and there was just so much to talk Later books adopted colors in cool, so it holds hope, but it about. Magical powers at their cover art that tied into also has some darkness to it. this new school, and all these Mary GrandPré, 64, now an abstract painter, takes a second look at ARTHUR LEVINE Sorcerer’s Stone. BY MARC SNETIKER

J.K. Rowling’s book editor on the creation of an American phenomenon. BY DAVID CANFIELD

The Stateside publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone made for one of the biggest U.S. book releases ever—and the start of a cultural game changer. Arthur Levine, J.K. Rowling’s editor at Scholas- tic, details the packaging, paper choices, and language behind the splashy release. creatures and characters and professors in between. Broadly, what was your vision There was so much juicy stuf for this manuscript in the happening, we just never quite beginning? “All Jo ever wanted was to be made it to them visually. published,” Arthur Levine says This was a time when booksell- of J.K. Rowling ers were not bullish on hard- When was the last time cover fiction, and they’re you found yourself sketching coming right of the preemi- In that first book I believe Harry? nence of paperback series like Ron says, “Dumbledore is About two weeks ago. I signed a Goosebumps and Baby-Sitters barking.” I said, “Jo, I have no book for a little boy who had a Club. But I was looking at my idea what Ron means here.” birthday, and I just put a little brand-new imprint to publish She said, “It [means] ‘he’s bark- sketch of Harry right in the book. books that would stand the ing mad,’ ” which means crazy. My stepson was so sweet to test of time. We were doing But I thought it sounded a shoot a video, so I got to see the everything we could to pack- little bit more angry. So what’s boy’s face as he opened it up, age it: put on a beautiful jacket another British phrase that and that was very touching. It that had gold foil on it, this Ron might say that’d convey

ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARY GRANDPRÉ ROWLING: MELOTO/SCHOLASTIC; CHARISSE GRANDPRÉ: © WARNER (3); BROS.RESERVED. ENT. ALL RIGHTS MAIL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK DAILY still gives back to me in that way. matte finish. Every detail of the craziness? She [asked], “Do production that we chose was you have ‘of his rocker’?” So specifically to make this feel we made that substitute. GrandPré in like a classic. Even the paper. her Florida studio. Behind Is there anything about getting her is a doll There were quite a few copy this book published that you of her favorite changes from Rowling’s origi- look back on? magical creature to nal British in Sorcerer’s Stone. How much support I got for draw: Dobby What were those conversa- what was basically my decision the house-elf tions like with her? and my gut instinct. It was The intention from the start was just a matter of me going to my to have those translations boss during an auction and decrease as the books went on. [him] asking me, “What do you We wanted American readers to think? Do you still love it— be able to distinguish when $5,000 more?” “Yes.” I could they were getting invented lan- have quaked and said it made guage and when they were me too nervous. But I didn’t getting British language—which feel that way, and so they didn’t was not always obvious! feel that way. The first time J.K. Rowling met the man who would build Hogwarts from scratch, she drew him a map. BY DAVID CANFIELD

THE SKETCH WAS DONE IN just a few minutes, of the cuf—but as any Harry Potter fan can see, its accuracy is uncanny. “I was curious— honestly, desperate—to know anything about the nature of Hogwarts [J.K. Rowling] could pass on,” says Stuart Craig, production designer on every Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film so far. “In a page of her notebook, she started [drawing] in the top left-hand corner and worked her way down to the right-hand corner, producing this map.” The result speaks for itself. The map covers all of Hogwarts and nearby Hogsmeade village, as well as the train station used by Hogwarts Express; it’s essentially a blueprint for how students navigated Rowling’s imagined world. Craig subsequently visited inspiration campuses, like Oxford, to flesh out the vision. No matter how much detail the books featured—and, indeed, Rowling was certainly vivid— this simple sketch can be credited with bringing the Wizarding World to life. “It kicked me of with a privi- leged start,” Craig says enthusiastically.

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childhood street, but as to the filming HARRY POTTER AND THEHARRY SORCERER'S STONE of this scene to open the film, neither Columbus nor his collaborators can remember the reason—let alone justify—why. “In retrospect, it seems ridiculously dark,” Columbus admits. “It was the wrong thing to do.” ERETT COLLECTION; TRAIN STATION, Supervising sound editor Eddy Joseph describes his design for the scene as a “heavy low rumbling.” “That’s what ING WILLOW: EV Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone famously begins I had set,” he confirms. “To make things with Hagrid, Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall dropping Harry of at Number 4, Privet Drive. But that ominous is to make your stomach wasn’t always the plan. BY DAVID CANFIELD upset—using low frequency, that’s the trick.” But, he says, “I [knew] that’d be far too dark to start it off.... If you want kids to see it—and they were going at 7 Imagine the Harry Potter franchise not opening with Hagrid’s or 8—to actually see people die would motorcycle delivery of baby Harry—because that’s almost be a real problem.” what happened. The team behind Harry Potter and the Sorcer- When filming finally began on the er’s Stone originally envisioned a very different first scene, one opening fans know and love, Colum- that’s merely referred to in J.K. Rowling’s novel: the death of bus felt pressure to introduce viewers Harry’s parents at the hands of Voldemort. The plan got so to an enchanting world with a scene far that the scene was actually filmed, and some footage set in a “dull, boring, cookie-cutter”

S (3); HAGRID'S HUT, BOATS: PETER MOUNTAIN/WARNER BROS. (2); WHOMP made it into the ﬁnished movie. ¶ “We shot [the] scene in area. “We [played] into the ordinari- Godric’s Hollow with Voldemort coming in and killing ness of the street itself—it becomes Harry’s father and mother,” direc- magical when Hagrid descends on that tor Chris Columbus recalls. “For motorcycle,” Columbus explains. But

How each house ghost some strange reason, we did not given that it was nearly 20 years ago, came to be want to shoot the iconic open- nailing that contrast came with techni- ing of the book.” There cal difficulties. “We had a Hagrid Ravenclaw were delays in getting double on a motorcycle, on wires, ﬂy- Stabbed by the permission from ing from the sky,” he reveals. “Today Bloody Baron after Warner Bros. to you’d go nowhere near that.” We she refused to come home

MAP, CARRIAGES,MAP, QUIDDITCH: WARNER BROS. PICTURE build Harry’s wouldn’t have it any other way. Turn magazine clockwise to TRANSFIGURE this spread. Harry takes flight to play Quidditch for the very

f rttime irst was a sport in itself. creating the Between and , The opening ceremony of the match, in which the players line up, was crucial to execute properly

There may not be a more iconic Harry Potter creation the end—we had to build up to it. than Quidditch. From the moment the sport was COLUMBUS The biggest challenge was making these characters look like they were introduced in J.K. Rowling’s first book, it emerged flying a broomstick. That could potentially as a phenomenon among fans—and a daunting come off as silly! With all due respect to challenge to adapt for filmmakers for the Sorcerer’s Margaret Hamilton and the Wicked Witch Stone’s most do-or-die scene. Here’s the full history of the West [from The Wizard of Oz], we of how Quidditch first went from page to screen, didn’t want it to look like that. from the people who made it happen. JOSEPH And we didn’t want it to sound too (PREVIOUS SPREAD) WARNER BROS. PICTURES; (THIS PAGE) PETER MOUNTAIN/WARNER BROS, buzzy or electronic. The brooms themselves wouldn’t have anything like motors. It should be like the air going through the twigs that constructed the actors, and what portions are going to be broom. Mounting one of the most ambitious parts of the VE representation of the live actors? COLUMBUS It was important that Quid- Harry Potter took a lot of work and ingenuity. STUART CRAIG (production designer) We ditch felt dangerous, that it felt fast, and built concessions and stands...the hoops, that—for lack of a better word—it felt CHRIS COLUMBUS (director) The most the big set pieces...to be shown against cool. You wanted every kid who saw the intense pressure I had as a filmmaker was greenscreen. movie to say, “That would be my favorite trying to figure out how Quidditch EDDY JOSEPH (supervising sound editor) sport, if I could play any sport.” worked. We had to approach it as if the We thought of it as a Roman amphithe- JOSEPH We conceived the three balls as audience was watching an NFL game for ater: the gladiators and animals going having individual sounds: The Quaffle, we the first time. The rules needed to be to eat each other, the kids marching in felt, was like a ball within a ball—there absolutely clear. [Screenwriter] Steve trepidation but head held high, walking was movement in it, but you barely heard [Kloves], myself, and Jo [Rowling] came into the lion’s den. We tried to create the it; a reverberant space. My sound designer up with rules that I don’t think were even feeling, as Chris said, like you’re at the Martin Cantwell thought it was a great in the book. Rose Bowl. It’s almost like leading ROBERT LEGATO (visual effects supervisor) lambs to the slaughter, [Visual effects] was not what it is today. I where the good created a beat sheet of the beginning, mid- win in dle, and end of the Quidditch match. We had to figure out how to shoot it. What’s in the frame? How is the camera moving? What portions are going to be the live ( Left ) Director Chris Columbus was committed to depicting the first match through Harry’s eyes ( Below ) Anyone know where the Golden Snitch ends up?

We’re trying to keep the game going on, in sound terms. I’m one of those believers that you’ve got to be very careful with having too much going on outside the frame. It’s why although the game is going on, it’s not loud—even though it probably would be. If there was a cheer, we’d have you look to where the cheer was. We wanted to use sound to concentrate on Harry having a problem and Snape doing something. Those parts of the scene are being isolated. COLUMBUS Jo was very specific about those words [Snape was mouthing]. She idea to record his voice for the Bludger; I wanted to take the audience by the hand wrote those for him—always thorough. that weird little nasty sound—the thought and bring them into the match—so they of it like the Tasmanian Devil—was him. felt like not only did they understand the When it came to the Golden Snitch, that game, but like they were playing the game. Harry wins for Gryffindor by catching the was very much [meant to be] like a beau- OLIVER PHELPS (George Weasley) When we Golden Snitch…in his mouth. tiful hummingbird. first started, the Quidditch scenes were COLUMBUS At its height of intensity, we very much [filmed] on a tiny little bike COLUMBUS I do remember reading [the had three Quidditch stages going. I would seat on a broomstick, and there could only ending] and laughing out loud. I thought hop back and forth. It was motion control, be one person at a time…. It took quite a it was so completely unexpected—and so it took a specific amount of time to set while to get it right because they wanted typical J.K. Rowling. She takes us to a up each Quidditch stop. I’d bounce back to do it in a certain way to match up with place where we’re always surprised. I was and forth between the major stage and the the background stuff they’d already filmed. obsessed with ending the scene as three Quidditch stages that the crew had LEGATO If you just saw the foreground, it written. shot. It was madness to see. would be incomprehensible. [Actors] are JOSEPH We never actually see the Snitch standing still, we have a fan on [them]; go into his mouth. We worried about it, but in the shot, it looks like [they’re] trav- but hoped by the time that he spat it out We see the game from Harry’s perspective— eling 50 miles an hour, swooping and that people would think he hadn’t swal-

/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO (2) PHOTO STOCK /ALAMY and, in the background, catch Snape doing all kinds of stuﬀ. We had to know lowed it. We couldn’t create a sound of mouthing what looks like a spell, with Her- how we were going to shoot the live por- him doing that, because that wouldn’t mione suspicious of him sabotaging Harry. trait. We tried to do it the best we could, have worked either, I don’t think. So it was (In reality, the culprit is Professor Quirrell.) and relied as much on real people...to a little bit of a cheat. [Laughs] intermix it with the VE, to kind of confuse COLUMBUS Ninety-ﬁve percent of the kids

COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL COLLECTION COLUMBUS The ceremony of the opening the eye. [Even now], I don’t really know who were going to see this movie knew it of the match—that was really important what’s real and what’s not. had to end that way. I had to listen to to me, as a ﬁlmmaker, to make sure we’re JOSEPH [In terms of] narrative, we didn’t those voices. X seeing that for the first time want to hear Snape; we didn’t feel through Harry’s that was right. eyes. CHRIS COLUMBUS “We shot all of these on a bluescreen stage, and Ken had no problem hamming it up and having a great time,” recalls director Chris Columbus. “[Kenneth Branagh] is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met— he has a great sense of humor, and he was up to it. These photos were meant to be tongue-in-cheek and very funny.” WARNER BROS. PICTURES BROS. WARNER (4)

LOCATIONS OF SCHOOLS* Scotland Pyrenees (the mountain range between Mass. Eastern Japan Central Africa, presumably As Gilderoy Lockhart, Kenneth Branagh played a famous wizarding writer with a penchant for deception and ex- aggeration. The one thing he did not lack, however, was charisma, as evidenced in this unearthed author photo shoot. BY DAVID CANFIELD

France and Spain) Eastern Europe, presumably Estonia or Latvia Mount Greylock, Uganda Brazil *There are 11, but Pottermore has revealed only seven locations Richard Harris, Daniel Radcliffe, and Jason Isaacs

To fill out the Hogwarts student body, the production recruited hundreds of kids from London-area theater schools. Two of them were DWTS alums and siblings Derek and Julianne Hough. Here, Derek talks about doing a scene with Emma Watson and trying to eat the Hogwarts food. BY LYNETTE RICE

“WE WERE AT PINEWOOD pretty disappointed. Studios for three There’s a specific scene months. There were where Hermione is these trailers where leaving for Christmas we had to attend school, while carrying her suit- and then we just case. We pass in the messed around and got hallway. I was holding into trouble. We’d have an owl. That’s my big dance-ofs during moment. I’m right in the breaks in our full robes. camera’s viewpoint, so Since I was a blond every time you look at kid, I would be a stand-in Hermione, you can see for Draco Malfoy. That me, clear as day. Some- was my claim to fame! times when I meet kids, Being young, it was they don’t know me pretty cool to see behind from Dancing With the the scenes, but we’d Stars, but if someone also be there all day, so mentions I was in the we’d get hungry. In the first Harry Potter movie, Great Hall they had all they’re like, ‘What?! of that food, so we What character were would try to eat it but you?’ I was the guy who then realize, ‘Oh, wait, walked across the it’s plastic.’ We were scene for five seconds.”

“Julianne got to be in the Quidditch scene. She had a crush on Daniel Radcliffe,” reveals Hough.

Director Chris Columbus explains why he saved this golden gizmo. BY DAVID CANFIELD The man behind the stone-cold Lucius Malfoy reveals the scene that made him sweat. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY

ason Isaacs vividly describes for EW his first scene in the very last moments of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, opposite the late, great Richard Harris, who played the wise, unrufled Dumbledore.

JASON ISAACS “Richard was telling me hysterical and unrepeat- able, filthy anecdotes of his life in the ’60s, which I was amazed he could recall with such detail. So I was sitting there with all the glow of my friendship with Richard Harris. My very first shot was the last scene of the film, and all I had to do was stand in front of Dumbledore and have him say, ‘That’ll be all, Lucius.’ I stood up there and they roll five cameras and...they say ‘Action,’ and I look at Richard and he looks at me and no one says anything. And I stand there and try and look like I had been caught, and he nar- rows his eyes and I think, ‘Poor f---er, he’s forgotten his line, he’s so distracted by telling his stories,’ and I thought, ‘Well, I’m not going to say anything, it’s not my place to do it.’ The pause seemed to take forever, and I started to get sweaty and think, ‘This is really embarrassing for him, he’s in his [70s]’…and then the thought flashed across my mind that maybe it’s my line? Maybe I was the one distracted, and I started to sweat, and panic set into my face and I thought, ‘Now it’s gone on forever and it’s so unprofessional.’ Just when I was at my most panicky, he said, ‘Thank you, Lucius, that’ll be all.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, you f---er. That’s why you’re Richard Harris, you know what you’re doing.’”

JASON ISAACS : LUMBUS, DIRECTOR OF THE FIRST TWO POTTER oducer on the third, brought home one item from s of true personal significance after filming t restore it, but I have the Golden Snitch,” he says. shape. It just sits on my desk in a little glass It’s not made of gold anymore; it’s brass. crooked.” One reason it means so much to g of the first Quidditch match, where /WARNER BROS.; GOLDEN SNITCH: GOLDEN BROS.; /WARNER tch,t thereby winning the game for Gryfindor. “ cted and funny.... [The movie] couldn’t end any other way.” DAVID BERG DAVID WINTERS DAN BY PHOTOGRAPH HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS goes, it seems, for the Golden Snitch’s fate. London-based designer Miraphora Mina worked on the Potter film franchise from the very beginning: Her first task was making Harry’s Hogwarts acceptance letter for 2001’s Sorcer- er’s Stone. She began working with graphic artist Eduardo Lima to craft the many design elements of Harry Pot- ter starting with 2002’s Chamber of Secrets. The duo now have their own Diagon Alley- MARAUDER'S MAP, POTION BOOK: PHOTOGRAPH BY DAN WINTER BY DAN PHOTOGRAPH BOOK: MAP, POTION MARAUDER'S esque shop—House of MinaLima—in London, “Eduardo and I really love Prisoner “The Weasley shop probably where they sell collect- of Azkaban because it starts to required about six months of work “Dumbledore’s ofice was this (3) MINALIMA/MINALIMA.COM PRODUCTS: WHEEZES WIZARD WEASLEYS’ ibles, art prints, and get a bit darker. The Marauder’s forafewpeople.Everysingle sort of womb in that school. The Map was a challenging piece that film prop re-creations. product had to be created, favorite thing I did were those [Rowling] didn’t give much away whether it’s a featured piece like memory files [seen in an ornate Mina reflects on some about, in terms of what it would the WonderWitch [beauty prod- case in Half-Blood Prince]. I don’t of her favorite pieces look like. I just wanted to make uct] range or just background think [Rowling] described in something that really reflected stuf. And [it was] two teenage detail what these memories from the franchise. the school and the architecture. boys who want to sell as much would look like; we just know that After I’d done the whole map crap as possible in their shop, so they were housed in glass jars. by hand, Alfonso [Cuarón] wanted that doesn’t mean sitting and It could have been a scientific to do the film’s title sequence designing beautiful packaging; [design], but instead they’re like as if it was part of it. There were it means botching it all through. jewels: Each memory jar has a How each house ghost came to be too many names—like, 4,000 So that starts to condition the beautiful top to it and a little foot. names—to be written by hand, choices you make with typogra- Each label we did with the LABELS, MEMORY S (2); so at that point we did cre- phy and printing choices and memory written on it has been Slytherin ate a typeface: It’s called the clashing colors.” laser-cut and are almost like lace. Miraphora. That’s my It needed to have that delicacy Stabbed himself typeface, and no one and intricacy of Dumbledore’s out of regret after killing the woman else has it yet.” layered character reflected in it.” he loved, the Grey Lady The Harry Potter films often fully realized the books on screen in part due to MinaLima, the design duo behind the intricate looks of the props—from letters to maps to books to memories. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY

The original Dumbledore, Richard Harris was known as the set's funnyman

cart—I’m making a shot, and all I hear is ‘Go, Chris!’ It’s [him] cheering me on as Dumbledore. I thought, ‘This has got to be one of the great moments of my filmmaking career.’” Their last encounter was roughly six weeks later, in Har- ris’ hospital room. Columbus entered and saw him writing. “Next to his bed are stacks of composition books, maybe 25, and in front of him is another composition book—he was writing his autobiography, telling me he was going to tell the truth about everyone. We sat there for a couple of hours, talking and laughing.” (As for the book: “We’ve never seen it; I don’t know what happened to those pages.”) The franchise's first director reminisces Columbus’ tone turns mel- about the man who brought Dumbledore to life. “The Half-Blood Prince potion ancholy as he reﬂects on their BY DAVID CANFIELD book that Harry finds—which final moments. “I’m exiting reveals Snape’s annotations—I /WARNER BROS. /WARNER had to be Snape and do those his hospital room, he’s sitting notes. I was thinking, ‘As much in this chair by himself with as I understand his character, Few worked as closely with Richard Harris as Chris his notebook in front of him, would he be rational in his expla-

: PETER MOUNTAIN PETER : nations or would he be impulsive Columbus, director of both ﬁlms in which the late and there was this beam of and angry and frustrated?’ actor starred as Albus Dumbledore. Columbus light coming from the window All those characteristics I had to imbue this piece with, so remembers him as wickedly funny and kind— onto Richard,” he says. “And if you look at it closely, you’ll recounting his final interactions as incredibly he said, ‘Okay, I’ll see you on see the lettering goes of in poignant, even, dare we say, magical. the third one.’ And I said, diferent directions; it’s very scatty and there’s ink splotches. When Columbus saw Harris on the actor’s last ‘Oh, deﬁnitely.’ Then he said to Hopefully that’s suggestive of day on set for The Chamber of Secrets, the director me, ‘If you ever recast me, that character.” More on the was playing basketball during a lunch break. “I’d I’ll f---ing kill you.’ We both already said goodbye,” he recalls. “Then, dressed as laughed.Illustrations And that was TK the last HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE Dumbledore, Richard is being driven by on a golf thing he ever said to me.” Common Welsh Green

Director Chris Columbus reveals his original plan to showcase a younger version of everyone’s favorite half-giant. BY DAVID CANFIELD

In The Chamber face on anyone.” The of Secrets, one flash- visual concept was back features Tom then scrapped, with Riddle confronting Hagrid’s body dou- a young Hagrid about ble, Martin Bayfield, thedeathofastu- stepping in to film dent. But in the film the scene in obscu- version, Hagrid’s face rity. “That was a difi- stays in the shadows, cult sequence to pull barely visible. This of because Robbie wasn’t always the is so well-associated plan. “That was an with the role,” unexplored avenue,” Columbus adds. He director Chris wishes he’d had Columbus says. “At a second chance at PICTURES BROS. WARNER that particular time, it: “I would’ve loved face replacement to have done a wasn’t as solid as it is version like they did today, so we couldn’t in Guardians [of the really put a young Galaxy Vol. 2], with a

Robbie Coltrane’s young Kurt Russell.” (4)

PATRONUSES OF DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY

E Swedish There was no model for creating Short-Snout these creatures. Pun intended. BY DAVID CANFIELD

The Goblet of Fire wanted us to put introduced enor- [the large model] in mous dragons to bat- the Dark Arts class- tle Harry and his room—we had to fellow champions. suspend this dragon The process of skeleton from the designing the crea- ceiling.” Dificult? tures—which never You bet. The fact that made it on screen full dragons have six scale as seen here— limbs (as opposed to proved complex and four, like most real frustrating. Before animals) also ren- even reaching the dered the conception efects team, the art especially labor- department labored intensive. But Craig over how to visually credits his artists— realize the beasts. who specialized Production designer in creatures—for get- Stuart Craig oversaw ting it so right that the concept art. the final product was “We first went to see simply awe-inspiring: a professor of anat- “From the outset, omy, who put parts their designs had on a dragon skele- great credibility. ton,” he remembers. They were totally “[The professor] believable.”

Chinese Fireball

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Why a scene involving the beloved ghost from J.K. Row- ling’s books ended up being cut from the film. BY DAVID CANFIELD

The mischievous Hogwarts polter- geist ranked among the movies’ greatest losses for fans— including Sorcerer’s Stone director Chris Columbus. “[It’s] one of my biggest regrets about the first movie,” he admits. He even shot a lengthy scene in which Harry and friends encounter Peeves in a hallway, with the late Rik Mayall (The Young Ones) voicing the character with great bravado, only to cut it altogether. “Compared to a complex character like Dobby—he’s funny, but he’s also a tragic figure— Peeves is more of a one-note guy, and comedy doesn’t translate so well through CGI,” Columbus explains. “Peeves was really Rik’s creation. He managed to tap into that character on the page, so we didn’t feel comfortable just re-creating Rik as a CGI character. PICTURES BROS. WARNER It felt like we were taking the soul away from Peeves.” ©2017 Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. SKITTLES and all afﬁliated designs are trademarks of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company or its afﬁliates. & “It’s a lot of fun,” says Davis of his forays into conducting frog choirs at the Wizarding World theme park

“Rarely can you partake in a project that is part of the human consciousness and that is so universally known and loved,” says Alfonso Cuarón about directing the Prisoner of Azkaban

Warwick Davis wore many hats across the Potter

films. Aside from playing Professor HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN Flitwick and various goblins, the actor, 48, also portrayed the conductor of Hogwarts’ student (slash frog) choir. Here, he shares his strategies for helping the magical community hit the right notes. BY SHIRLEY LI Director Alfonso Cuarón turns back time on that stag-gering scene POTTER UND DER ORDEN DES PHÖNIX at the Great Lake. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY

Just as spells must be correctly pronounced (remember: ith werewolves, time travel, and a deeper look into the it’s Levi-oh-sa, not Levi-oh-sa), a conductor’s hands must

Wizarding World than the first two tales, what better be accurately moved. “You think it’s just waving your & MAGIC LIGHT : INDUSTRIAL story for the filmmaker to spin his own brand of cine- arms around—that’s what it looks like—but there’s more matic magic than Harry’s third year? ¶ Cuarón breaks to it than that,” Davis says. “I wanted to make sure that if : CARLSEN; (OPPOSITE PAGE) (OPPOSITE : CARLSEN; down the film’s denouement, in which Harry (Daniel anybody watching understood music, they’d think I had Radclife) is forced to defend Sirius (Gary Oldman), Hermione (Emma some knowledge.” To learn the meanings of his move- Watson), and himself from a horde of Dementors at the Great Lake. ments, the actor observed composer John Williams as Harry believes his dead father somehow returned to save them with a he led the film’s orchestra. “And then,” he quips, “I added powerful stag-shaped Patronus, but we later learn that it was Harry him- a bit of Warwick Davis flair. He’s a bit of a showman.” BROS.; /WARNER self who saved the day, via the Time-Turner device. HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE OF GOBLET THE AND POTTER HARRY ALFONSO CUARÓN “It’s a climax in many diﬀerent ways because it’s one that is a revelation for Harry, in which he discovers this For wizard conductors, a wand can double as a baton— HARRY OG DØDSERGALIERNE POTTER as long as the user practices (constant) vigilance with inner strength that he was not aware of. But also, it’s a scene that it, that is. “You just have to be careful when conducting you see twice and from two different standpoints, and that’s that you don’t accidentally do some magic at the same something that from the early, early days, when I read the book time,” Davis deadpans. “You have one piece of equip- and the screenplay, I was so excited about. It was also very excit- ment for two things.” (Watch closely during the fourth film: Davis’ conductor swaps out his wand for an icicle ing to work with Daniel and Emma and Rupert understanding the during the Yule Ball. Safety first, especially at a party!) concept of two diﬀerent experiences. ¶ From the very early days : WARNER BROS/EVERETT COLLECTION we were working on designing the Patronus: how [it] was going PUBLISHING; : POTTERMORE to look, how it was going to feel. My take was that it was this Davis enjoys leading frog choirs when he’s at the Wiz- almost liquid quality. I was very proud of what we arding World theme park. “I take great delight in actu- achieved until I saw what David Yates did (in Order of ally conducting [the actors],” he says. He once donned a traditional white tuxedo, but retired it. “You don’t nor- the Phoenix), and he took it to the next, next, next mally wear a white jacket when you go out,” he notes. level. I wish I could say I nailed the Patronus, “But perhaps if I ever want to be a maître d’ at a restau- HARRY but it was David Yates who did.” rant…” Well, what’s one more hat to wear? As Barty Crouch Jr., Doctor Who actor David Tennant stepped into yet another otherworldly realm. BY SHIRLEY LI

Cedric (Robert Pattinson) in yellow with his fellow champions; making an underwater rescue FOR DAVID TENNANT, about Michael with playing a deranged his enormous beard, Death Eater in Alan wearing his 2005’s Harry Potter wig, and Maggie in and the Goblet of her witch’s hat,” the Fire brought him to, 47-year-old actor as he puts it, his laughs, miming the During the Triwizard Tournament, the world’s hottest Hufflepuff tried to just “happy place.” shape of Smith’s dive into a challenge. That was the problem. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY Sure, the role of pointed chapeau. “I Barty Crouch Jr.— just thought, ‘This who spends most of is what acting’s all the film impersonat- about, isn’t it?’ ” ong before he was a brooding vampire, Robert Pattinson won ing Mad-Eye Moody Besides, Tennant hearts as Cedric Diggory, the fresh-faced, popular Hufflepuff (Brendan Gleeson)— adds, he literally champion for the Triwizard Tournament. “I remember thinking, was small (“I was, looked up to them. ‘You end up dating the girl who Harry Potter wanted to date,’ so like, number 72 on His pivotal scenes, the gravitas of that was the thing that attracted me to the part,” the call sheet,” Ten- including a flashback Pattinson tells EW with a laugh of his character dating Ravenclaw Cho Chang nant quips), but it to a trial and the final (Katie Leung). But it wasn’t all about romance. While being cast in Goblet of Fire elevated Pattinson into the big leagues in terms of his acting career, actu- meant working reveal of Crouch’s ally filming the physically intense Triwizard Tournament challenges left him in opposite Maggie deception, both fea- the kiddie pool—literally. Smith, Alan Rickman, tured him cowering and Michael Gam- before his costars. bon. “I was happy to “They would all be ROBERT PATTINSON “It’s still like nothing I’ve ever done. The shoot was so be in their orbit. I about three feet long! I think we were shooting the maze for a month, the underwater stuff remember us sitting higher than me, for six weeks; it was just crazy. I remember doing the beginning of the under- around in a circle which I think was water task. We all had to dive off a high diving board, and I had never been telling wonderful sto- emblematic of where ries [between takes]. I stood in the peck- able to dive—and still can’t dive. It was just one of the more humiliating There was some- ing order,” he jokes. experiences of my life, to belly flop after belly flop after belly flop and genu- thing really fabulous “It was very exciting.” inely hold up a shoot because I just could not figure it out in my head. The entire stunt team were trying to teach me. It was on a Friday, and I went with my David Tennant was “delighted” to play Barty Crouch Jr., cornered here in the final act mum to a local swimming pool and learned how to dive with 3-year-olds and just couldn’t. I still can’t do it now. But after watching 25 3-year-olds successfully learn how to dive, I did one dive on the Monday. I think they literally shut

down the shoot because I couldn’t do it, and How each house ghost then on Monday, on my ﬁrst take, I did it, came to be and they gave me a round of applause. Then we did the second take and Gryffindor I went straight back to belly Executed after flopping—and that’s the his magic backﬁred while attempting to beautify a lady-in-waiting take in the movie!” of Henry VII's court Hogwarts students entering the Great Hall

“Our special-efects team painstakingly attached hundreds of candles to the ceiling. The very first time we shot it, the kids walked in with the camera craned up. We reset, and the candles started to fall. We only had one crack at it. When we got the dailies…everyone gets chills. STONE HARRY SORCERER'S THE AND POTTER I’ve got tears in my eyes. The crew applauded. We created the magic without CGI.” —Chris Columbus, director : WARNER BROS. PICTURES: BROS. : WARNER HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS: OF CHAMBER THE AND POTTER HARRY

The first reveal of the Chamber of Secrets

“That was a practical set that [production designer] Stuart Craig built. I was PETER MOUNTAIN PETER just blown away by the scale, again, without any CGI work whatsoever. It was stunning. To see that pro- /WARNER BROS. /WARNER jected on the big screen for the first time was a moment where we all gasped.” —Chris Columbus, director We asked the minds behind each Harry Potter movie to pick a scene they love the most. BY EW STAFF

The tense showdown at the Shrieking Shack

“I remember fondly shooting the Shrieking Shack scene just because I had the joy to be working with Daniel and Rupert and Emma, but also with Gary Oldman and David Thewlis and Timothy Spall and Alan Rickman. All of them in this very crazy scene but with such conviction.” —Alfonso Cuarón, director /WARNER BROS. /WARNER The underwater challenge during the Triwizard Tournament

: MURRAY CLOSE MURRAY : “Filming in an actual loch would have been too cold and impractical. We looked into doing a process called ‘dry for wet,’ where you suspend an actor and blow wind on them to give the illusion that they are underwater, but the hair didn’t undulate convincingly.” —David Heyman, producer

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (courtesy of Warner Bros., 2005) —CHRIS COLUMBUS

Harry firing his wand at a Dementor in an urban subway

“I wanted to bring the films into the real world, and an urban underpass feels very real and threatening at night—the perfect place to come across a Dementor.” —David Yates, director HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX THE OF ORDER THE AND POTTER HARRY , HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE HALF-BLOOD THE AND POTTER HARRY

Everyone standing in darkness after the death of Dumbledore : WARNER BROS. PICTURES BROS. : WARNER

“There was always something stirring and moving about seeing pupils and teachers stand together against the darkness, (2) united.” —David Yates, director Order of the Phoenix members impersonating Harry

“This happens at the beginning of the movie when everyone takes Polyjuice Potion to become Harry and act as decoys to wrong-foot Voldemort and his Death Eaters. We filmed multiple versions of Dan being diferent characters. It was fun.” —David Yates, director (2) : WARNER BROS. PICTURES HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS—PART 2 , —PART 1 —PART

When Harry, Ron, and Hermione convene on the bridge and Hermione lowers her head

“This is where they were saying goodbye to their extraordinary journey and their childhood.”

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS DEATHLY THE AND POTTER HARRY —David Yates, director 2

Don’t tell anyone, but Oliver Phelps 3 (George Weasley) pocketed this prop. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER

“THE ONLY THINGS I TOOK bag, but I’ve actually [are] pretty boring, got that framed in my actually—it’s one of the ofice at home. I was sweets from Fred and very glad to get that. George’s, the Skiving And I’ve got to be hon- Snackbox. I’ve [also] got est, I didn’t ask for the a bag from the Weasleys’ bag. [A similar design [Wizard] Wheezes joke retails for 99 pounds at shop, which, if you didn’t House of MinaLima in know what you were Soho in London.]Ijust looking at, doesn’t look quickly put it into my like anything too special. coat and went straight It very much looks like a of. I was thinking handmade cardboard ahead, you see.”

The world gasped—and applauded—when J.K. Rowling announced at a 2007 fan event that Dumbledore is gay, and the second Fantastic Beasts reveals that Voldemort’s snake Nagini was born a human. But those aren’t the only bits of magic that have been discovered since the final pages of Deathly Hallows. BY PATRICK GOMEZ

The infinite word count permit- When Noma Dumezweni was ted on pottermore.com, which SKIVING SNACKBOX: MINALIMA cast in the West End production Rowling launched in 2012, of Harry Potter and the Cursed allowed the author to expand Child, some scofed at the idea on the story of the infamous of a black actress as Hermione. prison: Azkaban [1] sits on an In response, Rowling took to island that was once inhabited Twitter in December 2015 to by a wizard named Ekrizdis, point out she never specified her who practiced dark magic and skin tone: “Canon: brown eyes, lured Muggle sailors there /MINALIMA.COM frizzy hair and very clever. White to torture and kill them. Upon Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes offerings are no joke skin was never specified. his death, his concealment Rowling loves black Hermione.” charms faded and the Ministry on to become Head Auror, and his elder son, Albus Severus, was sorted into Slytherin, as the child feared in the Deathly Hallows epilogue.

4 “My friends and I are having a super intense debate about the cost of tuition at #Hogwarts,” one fan tweeted in July 2015. Thankfully, Rowling saw the tweet and put the subject to rest: Eyes Wide Open: Cedric (Robert Pattinson) in his final moments “There’s no tuition fee! The Min- istry of Magic covers the cost of all magical education!”

On Pottermore, Rowling divulged that Headmistress Minerva McGonagall’s [4] mother, Isobel, deeply Cedric Diggory’s death led to the rise of the Dark Lord— resented marrying a Muggle and Robert Pattinson wasn’t going to miss it, even if his and living away from her fel- character was already a corpse. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY 5 low witches and wizards. That resentment weighed on the marriage and Minerva, who “never forgot how much her t’s hard to imagine Robert Pattinson ever being mother cried, when the letter a “spare,” but that’s exactly what Voldemort of [Hogwarts] admittance (Ralph Fiennes) calls Pattinson’s Cedric as He investigated. “The least fright- Who Shall Not Be Named orders Peter Petti- arrived.… [She] knew that Iso- ening part of it was that the grew (Timothy Spall) to kill the young Huflepuf. bel was sobbing, not only place was infested with Demen- Moments later, Voldemort—thanks to a cauldron brew out of pride, but also of envy.” tors,” wrote Rowling. that required Harry’s blood—is transformed from a tiny, Another tidbit: Divinations child-size creature into a fully-fledged being. It’s a piv- professor Sybill Trelawney was otal moment in the films, and a chance for Fiennes to once married, but it ended chew up the scenery as his character summons and then “in unforeseen rupture when berates his legion of Death Eaters. And Pattinson wanted she refused to adopt the to make sure he had a front-row seat for the action. surname ‘Higginbottom.’ ” In Draco’s biography on Potter- more, Rowling revealed that ROBERT PATTINSON “[Cedric’s death] at the exact his father, Lucius, believed Harry would follow in Voldemort’s same moment during the resurrection of Voldemort... footsteps. “It was comforting to there was such a massive anticipation on set about think that he, Lucius, might be that. It was a very emotional scene. When my father in for a second chance of world A school-age Tonks is featured [Amos Diggory, played by Jeff Rawle] came and domination, should this Potter in the mobile game Hogwarts boy prove to be another, and cried over me, that was very moving. I remember Mystery, in which the user greater, pure-blood champion,” trying to die in a way that my head was facing back- experiences seven years at the which is why Draco [2] initially school while searching for their wards so I could see what [Ralph Fiennes] was attempted to befriend Harry. missing brother Jacob, who doing when he was coming out of the cauldron. I had been investigating cursed was thinking, ‘I’m deﬁnitely going to die with my vaults. The game is not oficial eyes open, because I am not missing this,’ and to this canon, but it shows Tonks and Picking up 19 years after the elder Weasley brothers day, that was one of the best performances I’ve ever Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter helping search for Jacob—with seen happening in front of me, because there was and the Cursed Child has the help of a Defense Against majesty to it; it was really impressive. At the time, it the Dark Arts professor, Patricia thrilled theatergoers since 2016 was so anticipated, and to be right there and on the and includes insight into Rakepick [5], who has to be Harry’s adult life [3], includ- played by Cate Blanchett in the scene, it really felt like he was really embodying ing the fact that he went inevitable movie version. something very strange and dark.”

ILLUSTRATION BY THOMKE MEYER Alan Rickman, flanked by Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

able to ask], ‘How would you do this?’ or ‘Am I doing this right?’ It was very funny watching how he could go from one minute as Snape to the next minute [as] Alan Rickman, very personable.”

(Professor Flitwick) : MURRAY CLOSE

After all this time, does the cast have fond memories of the man who played ”When Alan was in his Snape Professor Snape? Always. robes and wig walking into the Great Hall, you could almost /WARNER BROS.; hear a hush come over the place. He’d sit down at the head table, and I remember looking

ask the producers’ permission over one day and seeing some- PRINCE HALF-BLOOD THE AND POTTER HARRY (Luna Lovegood) and sign all these forms. It was (George Weasley) thing that kind of shattered the the kind of thing [that you were] entire illusion of the mysterious- “Alan was a Method actor, so allowed to do, but you didn’t “I remember once he’d come ness he had. I could just see, we were all pretty much terri- do it too much. Like, if you did back from an awards show or sneaking behind his wig and fied of him on set. [Laughs] it too much, you were pushing something and in the gift box down into his robes, the white I just remember him being it. But Alan Rickman, pretty was an iPod, when they’d first wire of some iPod headphones. creepy around the corridors. much every day of filming, he come about. I remember being He was just quietly listening He didn’t smile, and everyone had a whole troop of little next to him in the hair and to something, and I started to talked about him in a children [visiting]. It was the makeup room, and I ended up wonder, what does Alan Rick-

reverent tone. But the most bizarre scene to see Snape showing Alan Rickman how man as Professor Snape listen PICTURES BROS. : WARNER memory that sticks out in this black robe, usually with, to work an iPod, which was not to on his iPod? An audiobook? to me was we were like, a bib on—we had to wear what I thought I’d ever do in Some Shakespeare? Some clas- allowed to bring these bibs so we didn’t ruin our my life. He was a very approach- sical music? Europop? Some guests [to costume—surrounded by all able guy once you saw past techno beats? I don’t know. the set], but these happy little children who Snape’s wig. He was great, I never did ask him, and I wish we had to were just chatting away to him.” especially in terms of [being Ihad.I’dlovetohaveknown.” With exceptions along the Tonks and Malfoy lines, the Black family has a strong astrological naming tradition. Here are a few of the distinguished dynasty’s most luminous stars. BY EVAN LEWIS

The Black family’s black sheep, Harry’s long-sufering godfather is named after the brightest star in the Canis Major constellation. Sirius, a.k.a. the Dog Star, is a fit- ting moniker for the pad-footed Animagus, especially because of the star’s proximity to Sirius’ father’s constellation, Orion.

Bellatrix is one of the deadliest Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) shows some Gryffindor pride and most fearsome of Volde- mort’s Death Eaters. The term “Bellatrix” translates to “female warrior,” and the character’s namesake star (third-brightest in Evanna Lynch pushed for her Orion) is often referred to as the beloved eccentric to get a turn as a sports Amazon star. commentator. BY DEVAN COGGAN

AS LUNA LOVEGOOD, EVANNA LYNCH RODE thestrals, sported Spectrespecs, and educated her Before a horcrux-snatching peers on the existence of nargles. But there’s one change of heart later in life, key Luna scene that didn’t make it to the screen, Sirius’ Death Eater brother was a despite lobbying from the actress: the Quidditch subscriber to the ideology that match in 2009’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood pure blood equates to royalty. Prince, where the eccentric Ravenclaw serves as the Regulus is the brightest star game’s commentator. “I remember reading that and in the Leo constellation, and its being like, ‘I can’t wait to do that,’ because I always name translates to “prince.” find sports really boring, so I relate to Luna completely when she wants to make it more interesting,” Lynch, now 27, says. In the book, Lovegood weighs in on “little human details” like the players’ psycho- Son of Narcissa Malfoy logical states and the shapes of clouds—everything (one of the few Blacks with a non- except the actual events of the game. But ultimately, celestial name), quintessential Lynch says, the scene was cut from the script. Slytherin Draco takes his name It wasn’t the only scene Lynch fought for, either. from the dragon or serpent She was an obsessive Harry Potter fan and wrote constellation. Continuing the family convention, Draco names letters to J.K. Rowling even before she joined his son Scorpius after the scor- the franchise with 2007’s Order of the Phoenix, so pion constellation. she frequently petitioned the filmmakers to include fan-favorite scenes once she was on set. When producers told her they couldn’t include Dumb- ledore’s funeral for budgetary reasons, she ofered to contribute a portion of her paycheck to help Mother of Nymphadora, Androm- fund it. “They were like, ‘Yeah, it wouldn’t cover it,’ ” eda is disowned by her blood- purity-obsessed family, including she says with a laugh. Bellatrix and Narcissa, when she Still, Lynch did have input into other pivotal marries a Muggle-born. The myth- Luna elements—like the designs of her radish ear- ological Andromeda, for whom rings and the enormous lion hat she wears in Half- the Chained Lady constellation is Blood Prince. “The way they had [designed] it named, is ofered by her family as originally, it was like a top hat with a lion on top,” a sacrifice to appease Poseidon. Lynch explains. “And I was like, ‘No, I always imagined that it looked like it was eating her face.’ ” I think I must have gotten the job under false pretenses.

As the series progressed, your audiobooks would come out the same day the books were released. Were you sworn to secrecy? Only later. Especially the last book. That was unbelievable. Somebody came over with the manuscript from England and handed me the first hundred pages. They wouldn’t give me the whole book. After I finished recording those, I had to hand [them] back to the producer, who gave me the second hundred pages. So I had no idea where the story was going. The first time I really heard it was when I was recording it.

You pronounced Voldemort with a silent t.Didyou feel vindicated when J.K. Rowling said that’s the way she actually imagined it? To me, the silent t was the obvious way of doing it. Jim Dale provided the narration for all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks, and in Voldemort. It sounded French, doing so became a beloved fixture of the Wizarding World. BY DANA SCHWARTZ so let’s do it French. Don’t forget, there were many words in the Harry Potter series that we didn’t know how to pronounce in the studio. Howdidyoucometothejob? Most actors in the Harry Potter universe portrayed a single char- I said, “Look, instead of bother- I was in an Of Broadway play acter. Jim Dale was responsible for nearly 200. The British actor ing J.K. every time we get to called Travels With My Aunt. narrated the audiobooks of all seven U.S. editions of the Harry awordwedon’tknowhowto And the audiobook people Potter books, which means, for many young readers, he’s lit- pronounce, why don’t I just [heard] that “Jim Dale was in keep recording that sentence erally the voice of the iconic series. In 2015, Dale’s a play that had three men who and speaking that word, when narration became available digi- did 33 roles between them.” I come to it, in a diferent way?” ANDREW CROWLEY ANDREW tally via Audible, and in just four And so they got in touch with Then we'd get in touch after me and asked if I wanted to months, his recordings sold [it’d] been done and say, How each house ghost record the book. It was only “Which of these was it?” and came to be more than one million copies. after I signed the contract that she would make her choice. EW spoke to the actor, someone happened to say, She’s a busy lady. She just /CAMERA PRESS/REDUX speaking as himself, “How many characters did you trusted Stephen [Fry, who play in the play?” and I said, recorded the British audio- to learn how he “Just the aunt and the nephew.” books] and myself to use our crafted audio The other two guys did 31 talent to create something. magic. voices between them. So, She wanted us to play with it.

E The riddikulus terms, names, and word puzzles in the Harry Potter books weren’t always easy to illuminate in other languages. BY DANA SCHWARTZ

IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE Each translator was version of Harry Potter and responsible for how literal the Order of the Phoenix, they’d be. Bar-Hillel made Hermione corrects one of the decision to alter Harry’s essays about Jupi- a scene in which Sirius ter’s moons as “Europa’s Black sings “God Rest covered in ice, not mice.” Ye, Merry Hippogrifs” to In the Norwegian version, make the work more the mix-up is a little difer- accessible for readers in : CARLSEN George Weasley (Oliver Phelps) is all ears when making fun of his injury ent: Europa is covered in Israel. “There’s no stan- “is,” not “fis.” Fis, in case dard, recognizable you were wondering, is a Hebrew translation of Norwegian word for “fart.” Christmas carols, so I sub- That wordplay is an stituted a well-known example of the many Hanukkah song…. The ways in which the Harry point was just to convey Potter series presented a the cheer and festivity.” unique challenge to trans- Sometimes new lan- lators, who were tasked guages provided humor HARRY POTTER UND DER ORDEN DES PHÖNIX DES ORDEN DER UND POTTER HARRY ; with translating not only that didn’t exist in English. Rowling’s sentences but The German word for George Weasley was known for being also the author’s playful- “lumbago”—lower-back a trickster. That went for the actor who played ness and inventive use pain—just happens to him, too. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER of language. “Translating be Hexenschuss or, liter- puns and humor is cre- ally, “witches’ shot.” For liver Phelps’ affinity for George Weasley ative work. Sometimes it’s the Sorting Hat, French hard to be inspired when translator Jean-François extended to behind-the-scenes high jinks, working under tons of Ménard coined “Choix- including torturing his onscreen little brother pressure,” says Hebrew peau,” a combination of Rupert Grint. “The remote for the [dressing- translator Gili Bar-Hillel. French for “choice” (choix) room] TV is the same throughout,” he tells EW. “[I was] It took her weeks to come and “hat” (chapeau). “Lit- up with a translation for erature refuses to be han- with my brother in Rupert’s dressing room, and we con- “Pensieve,” an enchanted dled in fixed terms,” says vinced him if you lean forward towards the TV, the volume shallow dish: In Hebrew Danish translator Hanna will go up. We kept Rupert going for a couple of minutes. it’s hagigit, “a portman- Lützen. “It is a winding teau of hagig—a fleeting road; it is a wonderful He was disappointed [it] wasn’t actually responding to his idea—and gigit—a mess, and you have to be body movement.” Phelps also recalls an amusing incident washtub.” prepared for anything.” that took place outside the confines of the studio when he attended a soccer match with costar Domhnall Gleeson. The Danish, Hebrew, and German editions of Harry Potter books : WARNER BROS. PICTURES; HARRY POTTER OG DØDSERGALIERNE: OG POTTER POTTERMORE PUBLISHING PICTURES; HARRY BROS. WARNER : “I remember being on the Underground realizing that neither of us really got our prosthetics off, so he’s got a big scar on his face from being a werewolf, and I’ve got half an ear missing. We looked a right pair,” he recalls. Oliver’s whimsical nature even applied to his twin brother, James, who played Fred Weasley. Oliver discounts speculation that they shared an emotional moment on set after filming Fred’s death scene, explaining: “We went to lunch. My brother actually went to sleep on the stretcher, so we left

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 him there for a little while.” Mischief managed! rather mysterious in the Potter books, I had a very clear understanding of who Grindel- wald was and what his story had been. Grindelwald is essen- tial to an understanding of how Dumbledore became Dumbledore.

What has it been like writing dialogue for a younger version of Dumbledore? It is no secret that Dumbledore is my favorite character in the Potter stories, so it was an absolute joy to have an opportunity to write dialogue for him again. He’s a fascinating character on so many levels.

How much of the three planned upcoming Beasts films do you have mapped out? As with the Harry Potter books, it is all mapped out. In fact, when we announced the five films, I talked about that. It’s always possible that some details will change along the way, but the arc of the story is there. It’s been an amazing opportunity to tell parts of the backstory that never made it into the original books. I’m thinking particularly of one character that I think Heading into Fantastic Beasts: fans will be surprised to meet The Crimes of Grindelwald, in this movie. what do we need to know DEBRA HURFORD BROWN about the title character? We’ve been told each Beasts The first mention of Grindel- film is set in a diferent city. wald is in Harry Potter and the Can you reveal one of the cities Philosopher’s Stone,sohehas from one of the future movies? been part of the canon from It’s far too early to spoil

the beginning. He was a very anything. What I can say is that /©J.K. ROWLING 2018 famous dark wizard whom we’ll go to at least one new city Dumbledore defeated in 1945, in the next film, possibly two, a wizard who once owned the and I’m keen to move outside The matriarch of magic gives us a rare glimpse elder wand (as Voldemort did Europe and North America. But of what’s to come in the series later). Although he remained you’ll just have to wait and see. Lumos! Pottermore sheds light on Yusuf Kama, one of the story’s new- est (and most mysterious) characters. Here’s an upcoming article: “A guide to the new characters from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”

usuf Kama, played by William Nadylam, is a French-African wizard who claims to be the last male member of his pure-blood family line, so his oﬃcial character description tells us. Although we’ve not seen much of this particular character from the trailers, we do know a few things about him—such as how he is on the hunt for another character we know a little better: Credence (Ezra Miller). And, for the first time, we can reveal that Yusuf has actually taken an Unbreak- able Vow to track Credence down—a magical promise meaning that if he doesn’t fulﬁll his task, he will die. We saw Severus Snape make one of these vows during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, /WARNER BROS. /WARNER promising to assist Draco Malfoy in Albus Dumbledore’s murder. So, as you can see, Unbreakable Vows are usually reserved for

: JAAP BUITENDIJK JAAP : quite serious things, rather than, say, promising to make someone a cup of tea. Yusuf also has a connection to Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) in the new ﬁlm: he’s actually her half-brother. How? Well, again, according to his biography, Yusuf’s Hats off to William mother was “taken” by an evil wizard Nadylam’s called Corvus Lestrange, and ended up Yusuf Kama and Katherine having a child with him—Leta. But why Waterston’s FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Tina Goldstein the obsession with Credence? From the first film, Credence is only known to us as an orphan—so is it possible Yusuf needs to track him down due to a family connection?

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(Poppy Corby-Tuech) (Brontis Jodorowsky) (Eddie Redmayne) PROP STYLIST: MEGUMI EMOTO (Callum Turner) (Alison Sudol) The Grindelwald ally Bohanna has some Newt’s wand is all about Prop modeler Pierre For Queenie, the design sports a simple design. theories as to the horn durability. “His wand Bohanna captured Newt’s team was able to “Wands are very on this wand’s edge: gets a lot of use; we brother’s sturdy “states- have some fun.“Itgave personal items, almost “You can heat a horn wanted to show that,” man” demeanor in this us a great opportunity like pieces of jewelry,” andreshapeit;you’ll Bohanna says. “It’s wand, down to the quartz- to create a fashionable Bohanna explains of see it’s had some work got a plain oak shaft with

ite stone handle. It’s made wand,” Bohanna says. how he conceives them. done to it in that way.” lots of knocks and /ANDERSON of “tough, robust materi- The result, with a He used this simple Also, given Flamel’s age, knicks—it’s almost like HOPKINS als,” amounting to a “very mother-of-pearl handle, design to introduce bet it carries serious a garden tool, in the way strong, powerful wand.” is quite striking. viewers to Rosier. magical power. it’s been so abused.”

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(Katherine Waterston) (Zoë Kravitz) (Jude Law) This wand was con- Ever-pragmatic Tina Bohanna says this sleek “I remember there was ceived for Prisoner of has a wand very diferent mix of ebony and silver even a debate on whether Azkaban,whenitspower from her sister’s, favor- reflects growth. “She

to put it on there,” wasn’t yet clear. “The ing power over flair. made some aesthetic CHARACTERS Bohanna remembers of Deathly Hallows book “It’s almost like it’s an choices as she matured,” the cryptic symbol on the wasn’t yet released,” issued wand,” Bohanna he explains. “The wand

wand’s base. “Its meaning Bohanna says. “We had says of the rosewood that you had [as] a OF LENGTHS WAND Does size really matter?) is relevant only to Dumb- no idea of what it’d come construct. “She’s happy kid isn’t necessarily the (Prompting the question: ledore. No one else to mean.” Still, his just with something wand you want [when knows what it means.” design was just right. to work with.” you’re] older.” Susan Harris’ Golden Age of TV r S ap to The Golden Girls, arris m e us l u he Emmy- inning writer- producer loooks ck on some o er fin s eat o .

BBy Kriste Balldwd in @Kriistenn Ball in ( Clockwise from above ) Susan Harris at work in 1980; The Golden Girls; Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond on Soap; Benson’s Robert Guillaume and Inga Swenson; Empty Nest’s Marsha Warfield, Richard Mulligan, and Park Overall For more than 20 years, it was almost impossible to turn on a television without seeing these four words: “Created by Susan Harris.”

Between 1975 and 1998, Harris was one of TV’s most prolific writers, creating 13 comedies, including the trailblazing cult hit Soap, the future pop culture paradigm known as The Golden Girls, and the long-running family sitcom Empty Nest. Along with mentor Norman Lear, Harris and her brand of bold, brainy comedy brought the sitcom into the modern era—and she did it all at a time when women were barely represented in the room, let alone seated at the head of the table. Though Harris has remained largely out of the spotlight since her last show, The Secret Lives of Men, went of the air in 1998, she invited EW into her suburban Los Angeles home to discuss her long and influential career. She does not even cringe when, in a spasm of fangirl excitement, I refer to her as a living legend. “Well, living at least,” she notes drily. We are sitting on the couch in her cozy library, where photos of her family—including her producing partner and husband of 35 years, the late Paul Junger Witt, and her two sons— decorate the shelves. Her husband passed away in April after battling cancer, and Harris says she’s “grateful for the distraction” of the interview. After that, I became friendly with [Happy

With her wavy mass of pale blond hair and wide blue eyes, Harris looks Days and Laverne & Shirley creator and (PREVIOUS SPREAD) HARRIS: DONALDSON COLLECT a solid two decades younger than her 77 years—and she speaks with the polite frankness of a woman who built an empire from scratch and has nothing Pretty Woman director] Garry Marshall, IMAGES, BANK/GETTY PHOTO DRINKWATER/NBCU PAUL left to prove. When asked why she moved from her home state of New York to who said, “Let me talk to the guys at Love, Los Angeles in 1965, for example, she says simply, “A man.” (That would be her American Style”—that was a show where first husband, actor Berkeley Harris.) Looking back on her legacy (a word she’ll hate, no doubt), Harris is neither self-deprecating nor self-congratulatory; you had 8-, 10-minute segments. He said, instead, she is clear-eyed and practical. Early on in her career, she recalls, “Listen, guys, if she can’t do it, I’ll write “I tried to write a medical show, and everybody was funny. I realized I can’t do a serious show.” And for that, we are thankful. it.” Well, I did it, and they gave me 10 more to do, and that started everything. BREAKING INTO THE BUSINESS

ALLINTHEFAMILY(CBS, 1971–73) IMAGES; ARCHIVES/GETTY OCHS ION/MICHAEL Necessity is the mother of invention, and so is divorce. Harris’ first foray into TV writing came as a result of an unexpected life change. In the early ’70s, after contributing scripts SOAP, BENSON I was never interested in TV writing. But I had a 2-year-old and no visible to The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and The means of support—my husband had left and he was giving me $500 a Partridge Family, Harris met Norman Lear,

who invited her to write for his hit comedy NEST EMPTY month, and after four months, nothing. He was an unemployed actor. I ran All in the Family. Harris used to bring her : IMAGES ABC (2); PHOTO ARCHIVES/GETTY into a woman I knew in the supermarket; she and her husband had just split toddler son to story meetings in his stroller, up, and we were talking about the ﬁnancial aspects of it. Her name was and she doesn’t remember any other IMAGES PHOTOBANK/GETTY : NBC Lisabeth Hush, she was an actress. I had taken a class prior to that in short- women writing for the show at that time. story writing at UCLA and I had written a short story. I showed it to her It was out of necessity. I gave him his THE GOLDEN GIRLS and she said, “Let’s do a teleplay based on the short story.” She happened bottle, and we pitched, and it worked. I to have a friend who knew the producer of [the NBC drama] Then Came didn’t take him to every story meeting, but Bronson, and they happened to have needed one script more that season, sometimes I simply had to. He probably and they took that one. learned a lot. [Laughs] Then Norman asked :

72 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 kinds of terrible things to the network [vice president] Marvin Antonowsky. From then on, they would take any heavy objects, like ashtrays, out of the room [when they met with me] because I had made such a scene. Don’t take that literally. [Laughs] Paul was having a meeting with another writer, Steve Gordon [who later wrote and directed Dudley Moore’s hit film Arthur], and I burst into the office. I said, “Fay was just canceled, and you’re having a meeting with another writer about another show?” I really was a little bit bonkers. Steve Gor- don was terrified of me from that day on.

SOAP (ABC, 1977–81)

Harris launched two shows in 1977. The first was a CBS rom-com called Loves Me, Loves Me Not, starring The Partridge Family’s Susan Dey as a schoolteacher who falls for a reporter (Kip Gilman). “It was basically ‘See Dick. See Jane. See Dick and Jane fall in love,’ ” says Harris of the short-lived series. Six months later, she bounced back with her first hit: The absurdist serial comedy Soap Maude stars followed two sisters, Jessica Tate (played Adrienne Barbeau by Katherine Helmond) and Mary Campbell and Bea Arthur in a scene from (Cathryn Damon), and their ridiculous fami- “Maude’s Dilem- lies. In between all the high-concept hilar- ma.” Writing an ity—which ranged from murder mysteries episode about and love triangles to alien abductions and abortion “didn’t make me nervous demonic possession—Soap told ground- at all,” says Harris. breaking stories about sexuality, interracial relationships, mental illness, religion, and more. A then-unknown Billy Crystal played if I would be on staff, and I said no because All in the Family and he had confidence in Mary’s gay son Jodie, whose sexuality was treated with humanity as well as humor. I didn’t want to leave my baby. I just wanted me. I knew it would be an intense reaction I wanted to do a series where you weren’t to write at home. I never went to the set, [from viewers]. I knew people felt very confined to a beginning, middle, and an never went to the writers’ room. I don’t strongly about it one way or the other—but end in 23 minutes. And that really was the think I ever did [meet the cast]. I was something like that would never deter me. appeal. We would change the storyboard just an episode writer. around, we could shift things, kill people, FAY (NBC, 1975–76) bring them back. If it didn’t work out, MAUDE (CBS, 1972–73) In 1975, Harris teamed up with producers [the character] was gone, or if we had Harris transitioned from All in the Family to Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas for only scheduled this person for two epi- her first sitcom creation, Fay, a sharply its spin-of Maude, starring future Golden sodes, they could become regulars. There Girl Bea Arthur. Harris wrote four episodes observed NBC comedy starring Lee Grant in total, including the now legendary two- as a newly divorced fortysomething woman was a lot to play around with. And that part abortion story, “Maude’s Dilemma.” reentering the workforce and the dating was my favorite show. world. Though the Witt/Thomas/Harris Norman wanted an abortion episode for partnership would soon become a We pitched it, I think, to [then ABC Maude’s neighbor Vivian [played by Rue producing powerhouse, Fay lasted just 10 entertainment president] Freddy Silver- McClanahan]. I thought it was a wonderful episodes, much to Harris’ consternation. man. I wrote a bible [a guide to the show idea. I thought it was something that abso- My first heartbreak was Fay. I remember and characters]—I don’t even think I lutely should be addressed, and I liked crying when that got canceled. And the next have a copy anymore—and that really tackling issues as well as entertaining. day I drove on the lot and my parking space sold it, because everybody had a profile. It I gave it to him, and he said, “This is too was gone. It was that fast! When they can- was a very funny bible; it was about half good for Vivian. We have to give it to celed us, I had no idea that that was what an inch thick, and they loved it. Maude.” They lost, I think, all their spon- the meeting was going to be about. They A lot of [the cast] were from theater. We sors. I wasn’t surprised he asked me [to called us into the network and they said, had to cast Mary, I think, three or four times write it] because he had seen my work on “Listen…” And I went berserk. [I said] all before it worked out. Jessica we had from

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 73 the get-go, once we met Katherine and she read. And Richard Mulligan was just gold. You didn’t even have to write for him—one of his looks was enough. [Billy Crystal] tells this story about when he met Paul. Paul had been given two tarantulas by the casting women. Billy went into Paul’s office, and I think he didn’t have any intention of taking the part—this is what he says—but when he saw Paul feeding crickets to the tarantulas, he said, “Fine, I’ll do it.” I didn’t have a writers’ room. I always hated the writers’ room. For me, writing was much more of a personal experience, and I didn’t want to sit around a table with people throwing jokes around. I think I went to one writers’ room and cried. On Soap, I wrote the first year and a half by myself. Writers’ rooms now, what are they, like, 15 people? We tried a few people. It just didn’t work out. So I would rewrite them. My son and I lived in a little rental in Sherman Oaks, no pool. I said to my son at the time, “Listen, Mom’s got a choice here.” I said, “I can work really hard, which means I’m not going to see you as much, and we can get a pool. Or I can stay home and not work so hard, but then I think we can’t get a pool.” He said, “Go for the pool.” And we got the pool! After a year and a half, we found Stu Silver, and that was a really good fit, so Stu started writing, which eased the burden. But it was exhausting.

Due to its boundary-pushing content—including a romance between Jessica’s daughter Corinne (Diana Canova) and a Catholic priest (Sal Viscuso)—Soap began making headlines before the first episode aired. A screed against the sitcom written by Newsweek’s Harry F. Waters blasted the pilot for being “saturated with sex”—a dubious characterization, even by 1977 standards— and got religious groups all in a lather, which helped earn ABC’s new comedy plenty of pre-premiere press. [He said] there was sex with a priest in a church—which never happened, by the way—and he stirred up a lot of controversy about the show. When the show went on the air, people had expectations that simply weren’t met. They thought, “There’s nothing wrong with this.” But it did very well.

The protests may not have derailed the show (it ranked No. 13 in the ratings for the 1977–78 season and ultimately earned three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series), but Soap was a nonstop source of stress for ABC, causing the network to lose sponsors and giving the standards and practices department agita. We got memos [from the network] all the time. What we did on a weekly basis was, I would put things in the script that were completely unacceptable. I can’t remember what they were, but things that I didn’t care about that I Benson was such a beloved character, we could use [for] bargaining for things I really did want in the script. And they knew we could do a spin-off. What were very lenient. Al Schneider was at [ABC] standards and practices—we [Robert] brought to the role was, he was made his job much harder, but he gave us a lot of room, as did Freddy. We the smartest person in the room. He was were pretty much allowed to do anything, and we were really ahead of the the voice of sanity and reality, and he let time. Now if you read something about, you know, “We’re finally able to do everybody know that. He really did this gay character”—[Soap] did it way before. everything—he served every aspect of a I think our only advertiser was Vlasic pickles and a car company, Alfa Romeo. character that you could. And he was a That was it. To this day I only get Vlasic pickles. It was a very expensive show pleasure to work with. The show did very, to produce, and after giving us four years [the network] just couldn’t afford it very well. I was not very [involved] because anymore, and we understood. [Otherwise] it could have run for years. of Soap. I couldn’t do everything—as it was, I could hardly do Soap. There’s just so BENSON (ABC, 1979–86) much of me you can spread around. But it Harris knew “almost immediately” that the character of Benson—the Tate didn’t stop me from creating shows, writ- family’s sharp-witted butler played by Robert Guillaume—could carry his own ing the pilot, and leaving—and that’s why show. When asked what interested her about building a show around Benson, [my husband] called me a “creator- she replies, “Money.” Harris wrote the pilot and then returned to her “baby,” Soap—a pattern that would continue throughout her career. Benson would run deserter.” I would stick around for the first seven seasons, three more than the show that spawned it. couple of episodes and that was it. I wasn’t

74 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 The cast of Soap: (clockwise from top left ) Billy Crystal, Ted Wass, Richard Mulligan, Robert Mandan, Donnelly Rhodes, Jennifer Salt, Roscoe Lee Browne (who succeeded Robert Guillaume after he departed for Benson), Jay Johnson, Bob, Katherine Hel- mond, Arthur Peterson Jr., Cathryn Damon, and Jimmy Baio. Soap was canceled after season 4, leaving Helmond’s Jessica standing in front of a firing squad (along with several other cliff- hangers). “I have no idea what happened to Jessica,” says Harris. “Of course, she was not going to get killed.” ( Below ) Guillaume on Benson

women?” The writer said, “No, I’m not interested.” Paul said, “I think I might have someone who’s interested.” He came home, and I remember where the conversation took place—in the bathroom—and he said, “Honey, listen. What about…” I said, “No, Paul! I’m not—don’t do this to me!” He said, “It would be four older women.” Older appealed to me, because old people have stories and young people didn’t. It was always hard for me to write young people, but old people—there’s a richness that’s there. I said, “Old women?” He said, “Yes, old women.” I thought, “Okay, I could do that.” Well, by “old women,” NBC meant women in their 40s or 50s. I was thinking old. So we negotiated—we never pinned [their] ages down. We just found the women, and we had the most remarkable women. I remember writing in the pilot [script] emotionally invested in those shows that Dorothy was “Bea Arthur-like,” and the way I was in Soap and Golden Girls. who did we get? [Laughs]WesentTony to New York [to audition actors] and he called THE GOLDEN GIRLS (NBC, 1985–92) up and he said, “I’ve found Sophia. There’s As Soap ended its run, Harris continued to just no question.” And Estelle Getty came create shows at an impressive rate—I’m a in—it was a no-brainer. She had it. And Big Girl Now (1980–81), a starring vehicle for Soap’s Diana Canova; It Takes Two when somebody like Betty White wanted to (1982–83); Hail to the Chief (1985), starring do it and was available, it was just gold. Patty Duke as the first female president—but Betty read for Rue’s part, and Jay Sandrich, she continued with her “creator-deserter” pattern. “After Soap, I said I will never have who was the director, said, “Betty’s done this experience again, because I was that before. On Mary Tyler Moore, she was exhausted.” But “never” came sooner than the slut. Let her read for the part of Rose.” she expected, when her husband presented her with an idea she couldn’t refuse. And then we got Rue for Blanche. In 1985, Paul and Tony took a meeting at To this day, Harris says the pilot, “The : ABC/GETTY IMAGES (2) NBC. They were with [another] writer. Engagement”—in which Blanche nearly marries a man who turns out to be a biga- Miami Vice was on, and [the network] said, mist six times over—remains her favorite

SOAP, BENSON SOAP, “What about Miami Nice, a show about older episode of The Golden Girls.

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 75 The pilot—and I say this as humbly as I possibly can—it was a perfect The Golden Girls (Estelle GGetty, episode. You know how much you have to do in a pilot, besides tell a story Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, in 23 minutes. You’ve got to introduce people that no one has seen before, and Bettyy White) give a bit of the backstories, establish their characters—much more had a male housekeepere goes into a pilot than any other episode. It’s the hardest to pull off. named Coco in the pilot,,but the [St. Elsewhere executive producer] Bruce Paltrow—I think we were at an aﬃl- women wwereso good,“wwe didn’t iate screening—turned and said to us, “This is the perfect pilot.” And it was. have room for him,” sayys Harris The Golden Girls was an instant smash, premiering at No. 1 with an estimated (right, in 2011) 44 million viewers. Fans loved the depiction of four mature women supporting one another while looking for love (yep, these grannies had sex, and plenty of it!) and living their best lives in Miami. The friendship between Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia—and their regular heart-to-heart talks over cheesecake— became the standard to which all future TV quartets aspired. I couldn’t believe [the ratings]. It was just stunning. I think people felt like you could have a family no matter who you were, at any stage in life. So there was hope in that show—that you didn’t have to be married, you could create your own family. These were four women who became a family. Some [of the characters] were easier to write for than others. A few came more naturally, like Dorothy and Sophia. They were New York girls [like me], and they had that edge. It was a little bit more diﬃcult to write for Rose and for Blanche, but it was an all-star cast. You just couldn’t get

76 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 “THE GOLDEN GIRLS HAD AN AMAZINGLY BROAD APPEAL. PEOPLE WOULD TELL ME THAT THEIR KIDS WOULD STAY IN TO WATCH IT.” SUSAN HARRIS

Though much like SATC, The Golden Girls revivals—Murphy Brown, Will & Grace, featured very memorable fashion. Charmed, Designing Women, ALF, and The Facts of Life are all airing or in the Oh my God. [Covers her face] Oh my God. works—Harris isn’t interested in revisiting Bea—those outfits. They were horrible! Did any of her old shows (or creating new ones). I ask to have any of the wardrobe myself? No. No. Uh-uh. Listen, they wanted us to do No. But listen, that was one of the last things a Golden Girls musical and I said no. Golden I could pay attention to, what they looked Girls was what Golden Girls was— it was like. It was more of “Okay, fine, whatever.” those women, and let’s leave it alone. It was iconic. Even if I were much younger, The Girls’ active sex lives sometimes I wouldn’t do it. And I don’t have any ideas raised red flags for NBC censors, but Harris recalls winning most of the battles. for television shows or anything like that. I am fine not writing or even thinking Listen, it was so successful, we had a lot of about it. I really am. leverage.… Paul and Tony said, “We’ll do the notes [meetings] with the network—go home and write.” Because I just had no WHAT SHE’S WATCHING patience with them. It was always somebody Today, Harris isn’t a big fan of network from corporate giving his opinion of what TV, but she’s making her way through a should happen, and I really had no use for it. running list of dramas, including Hulu’s Way after [Golden Girls], I had a show The Looming Tower, PBS’ Poldark, and annybody better for any of those roles. I HBO’s Succession. As for comedies… called The Secret Lives of Men. The network alwways liked to write—in Soap and in Golden I’m not an easy laugher. I’ve never found [representative] came down to give notes, Giirls—scenes that meant something. I any comedies that I really like. I’m a dark and I said, “I refuse to take notes from neever liked setups and jokes. I wanted there soul. [Arrested Development creator] Mitch somebody I drove in the car pool.” And it to be some reality to what I was writing. Sit- [Hurwitz] worked with us [on Golden was true! She had gone to school [with my tingn around eating cheesecake gave them Girls]. I think I watched [Arrested] once in kids], and I drove the car pool. I said, “I’m thhe opportunity to talk about something. the very beginning. It just wasn’t my cup not taking notes from her.” Annd that’s why it was so appealing.… You of tea. And then somebody told me I didn’t see people talking [on TV]. should watch [The Marvelous] Mrs. Maisel, The Golden Girls spent six seasons in There were comparisons made later to the top 10, then dropped to No. 30 in and I don’t even know if I got through one Seex and the City, and I fail to find the simi- its seventh and final year. When Arthur episode—I didn’t like it. larities there. These [Golden Girls] women chose not to renew for an eighth season, Harris & Co. tried to keep a version of the haad solid, real relationships; Sex and the As our conversation winds down, I inform show going with a spin-of—The Golden Harris that it’s quite possible she’ll be Ciity and Designing Women were some- Palace, in which Rose, Blanche, and referred to as a pioneer in this article. Does thhing else. As crazy as those women could Sophia ran a Miami hotel—but it was she feel like a pioneer? canceled after one season. (“It just didn’t beeonGolden Girls—Rose with her stories work,” says Harris.) Girls did spawn one How do you define pioneer? Did I break annd Sophia with her mouth—it was more successful spin-of: Empty Nest, starring some ground? Yeah. I don’t know that : NBC/PHOTOFEST, SUSAN HARRIS: ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES grrounded in reality than those other Soap’s Richard Mulligan as a widower living I would ever use the word pioneer because I with his two adult daughters, which ran shhows, which I thought conformed more for seven seasons on NBC. Though TV is think of covered wagons when you say it.

GOLDEN GIRLS GOLDEN too the situation-comedy formula. now flush with ’80s and ’90s reboots and But if you want to use it, go ahead. X

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 77 Edited By | KATIE HASTY @KATIEHASTY FIRST MAN FIRST : DANIEL MCFADDEN/UNIVERSAL; MULLIGAN: WILDLIFE: IFC FILMS; OXENBOULD: SCOTT GARFIELD/I A FILM OVE WE L Ryan Gosling has the right stuff as Neil Armstrong

Apollo 13, but it’s very much its own thing— First Man part exhilarating space epic, part intimate character study in miniature. STARRING DIRECTED BY First Man has moments of cosmic visual Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Damien Chazelle grandeur that rival 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jason Clarke But the press-shy Armstrong was always an RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY inherently unknowable man. And Cha- PG-13 2 hrs., 18 mins. Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty zelle’s film, as enthralling as it is, never solves his inner mystery. It offers theories about what made the astronaut tick (the FRESH OFF THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT AND BUFFETED BY wounds left by the death of his baby daugh- the headwinds of Oscar buzz, Damien Chazelle’s tech- ter to cancer), but Armstrong remains a bit nically dazzling First Man chronicles the early days of of a riddle at its core. NASA up to the minutes right after Neil Armstrong Still, the movie couldn’t arrive at a better FC FILMS takes “one small step for man” on the moon. The film time. It’s a stirring reminder of a more is bound to draw comparisons to The Right Stuff and high-minded era in our nation’s history,

THE NINE-WORD REVIEWW > Wildlife (Oct. 19, limited) Gyllenhaal, Mulligan, marital malaise witnessed through a child’s eyes. B+ —CN THE REEL Cold, Hard(y) Cash Venom ’60S SET NEWS opened to $80 million, the biggest We recommend these October domestic debut ever. biopics about figures Back Into the Wardrobe Netflix from America’s cultural revolution. plans to make new movies based BY CHRIS NASHAWATY on The Chronicles of Narnia.

A FILM WE LOVE

1 A Starr is born: Amandla Stenberg when we led the world through the bold- ness of our ambition. Or, in the words of THE DOORS (1991) The Hate U Give Val Kilmer channels

: ERIKA DOSS/FOX JFK, doing things not because they are easy, the Lizard King in STARRING Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, KJ Apa, Common but because they are hard. Oliver Stone’s Jim Morrison film. DIRECTED BY George Tillman Jr. Ryan Gosling plays Armstrong as a sort RATING PG-13 | LENGTH 2 hrs., 12 mins.

THE HATE U GIVE U HATE THE of bottled-up ’60s brainiac square. He’s a

wizard of control and clearheadedness REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats who’s at home in the cockpit, but quiet and 2 withholding with his wife (an excellent AT 16, STARR CARTER (AMANDLA STENBERG) Claire Foy) and children. The space pro- MALCOLM X (1992) should be too young to know what code- gram is escape for him—he’s more at peace Spike Lee’s portrait switching means. But it’s how she lives, even if in space than he ever seems to be on terra of the black leader

: ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/PARAMOUNT; ATSUSHI : features one of that’s not the name she calls it by: At home, she can recite firma. Even his astronaut pals (which Denzel’s best turns. Black Panther tenets for her father (Russell Hornsby) on SELMA include Jason Clarke, Patrick Fugit, and command; at her elite private school, she’s compelled to Corey Stoll, with Kyle Chandler back at be the model minority, studiously avoiding the slang and Mission Control) can’t reach him. 3 streetwear her white classmates co-opt so breezily. Where the film most comes alive, She also shouldn’t have to watch the life bleed out of though, is when it leaves the ground and her childhood best friend, Khalil (Algee Smith), after a soars into the heavens with all of its chaotic JACKIE (2016) routine traﬃc stop goes wrong. When he dies, though, terror and serene majesty. Gosling, in his Natalie Portman the careful wall she’s built between her two worlds starts most interior performance to date, lets the turns a post-JFK interview into a to come apart. Working from Angie Thomas’ best-selling : STEPHANIE BRANCHU/FOX SEARCHLIGHT; BRANCHU/FOX STEPHANIE : audience glimpse into his character’s soul, beguiling dream. 2017 novel, director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food, Noto-

JACKIE most poignantly when he makes those fate- rious) sometimes stumbles into a clumsy or schematic ful first steps on the lunar surface and moment. But if YA movies have been smeared with a achieves a brief, almost religious, respite of 4 wide beige-colored brush for too long, Hate feels like the absolute quietude. I suspect that some welcome crest of a new wave—spurning bland chronicles moviegoers will find the film’s ending to be of sparkle-skinned vampires or dance-squad rivalries for a bit too downbeat, too untriumphant after LENNY (1974) : DAVID LEE/WARNER BROS.; pointed, often painfully relevant tales about race and jus- the triumph that has preceded it. But Cha- Dustin Hoffman mines the sacred tice and millennial identity. And Starr is made achingly zelle and Gosling have achieved something and profane of MALCOLM X MALCOLM real by Stenberg’s vulnerable, visceral performance. (She remarkable here, even if their first man is comic Lenny Bruce. gets strong support too from Regina Hall as her fiercely the last man we feel we truly know. A– protective mother, Issa Rae as an activist lawyer fighting to tell Khalil’s story, and Common as the police officer THIS FILM CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING: 5 uncle with his own take on black and blue lives.)

: EVERETT COLLECTION (2); EVERETT: COLLECTION Though Tillman ties it all together a little tidily— CCCREW CUTS R RUSSKIES LENNY SELMA (2014) certain past wrongs righted, hapless white boyfriends sud- , David Oyelowo denly approved—he’s already served up a message that ESEJECTOR SEATS MW MOONWALKING portrays Martin Luther King Jr.’s feels too fresh and important to dismiss: not of hate but THE DOORSTHE complexities. of hope, and faith that even if sharing these stories can’t magically ﬁx what’s broken, telling them still matters. A–

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 79 FROM THE FIRST CREATORS OF THE LOOK HIT BROADWAY SHOW COMES THE GROUNDBREAKING NOVEL.

Rebel Wilson is a Pretty Woman opposite Liam Hemsworth Love atFirstSight: Isn’tItRomantic Rebel Wilson channels her inner Julia Roberts in this new romantic comedy about being trapped in a romantic comedy— out on Valentine’s Day 2019, of course! BY DEVAN COGGAN

THERE’S A MAGICAL them as fantasy. But smitten with a yoga alternate reality, a place when a scufle with a ambassador played by where most romantic thief knocks her uncon- Priyanka Chopra. (Even comedies are set, where scious, she wakes up worse, Natalie is trapped the apartments are smack in the middle of in a PG-13 rom-com: always enormous and one—and she’s the lead- All cursing and nudity is

NYC never smells like ing lady. “It’s kind of like auto-censored.) For Wil- W DEVINE, BROS.; PARMELEE/WARNER MICHAEL HEMSWORTH: AND WILSON garbage. It’s a mystical [Natalie’s] worst night- son, who’s best known land filled with comic mare going into it, and for stealing scenes in misunderstandings and I spend the rest of the comedies like Brides- impromptu musical movie figuring out how maids and Pitch Perfect, numbers, where every- on earth I’m going to this is a chance to finally one works as either a get out of it,” Wilson, 38, take the spotlight. “I magazine editor or an tells EW with a laugh. don’t think there’s been architect. The upcoming In true rom-com a rom-com where there’s comedy Isn’t It Romantic fashion, Natalie quickly a plus-size girl as the is a return to that world, finds herself in a tangled lead,” she says. “They’re albeit with a twist: Rebel love triangle with a dash- normally cast as the sassy Wilson stars as Natalie, ing stranger, Blake (Liam friend or the sidekick.” a cynical architect who Hemsworth), and her Wilson and director “The hit musical will actively despises rom- best friend, Josh (Adam Todd Strauss-Schulson coms and has dismissed DeVine)—who himself is watched and rewatched make you cry just as dozens of rom-coms Love triangle: Adam DeVine, Wilson, and Priyanka Chopra much in book form.” to prepare; the film PICTURES BROS. WARNER CHOPRA: AND ILSON, includes nods to classics —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY like Pretty Woman, When Harry Met Sally, and Notting Hill. “It’s a romantic comedy about falling in love with yourself,” Strauss-Schulson says. “And it’s a romantic comedy about romantic comedies and the romantic AUDIOBOOK ALSO AVAILABLE stories we tell ourselves.” Movies

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RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 49 mins. For Nic (Timothée Chalamet), the drug is weed, then cocaine, pills, and his kryptonite: REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt crystal meth. Nic’s journalist father, David @Leahbats Lost Boy: Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell (Steve Carell), approaches his son like a problem he can solve. Nic can’t stop, though, and LONG LIVE MICHAEL Beautiful Boy he can’t be fixed. Chalamet is beautiful, like a Myers—so maybe STARRING Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet someone can finally kill boy on a Grecian urn with a crack running him in a big, funny, scary, squishy, DIRECTED BY Felix Van Groeningen through it—alternately sweet and addled, super-meta sequel that brings it all furious and catatonic. As he stumbles in and back to John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 RATING R | LENGTH 2 hrs. out of hospitals and rehabs, the people who original. Director David Gordon REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats Green has brushed past franchise love him, including his stepmother (a great entries aside for the core story of Maura Tierney), begin to turn from hope to lone survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie ADDICTION STORIES WIND DOWN triage and despair. Belgian filmmaker Felix Lee Curtis), now a fierce grandma with a gun and a long, long memory, different paths, but they only really Van Groeningen paints it all in dazzled Cali- and silent killer Michael (Nick have two endings: sobriety or fornia light, and Carell and Chalamet are too Castle and James Jude Courtney), death. Boy keeps you strung on that line for good not to make you care; they just can’t let loose on the 40th anniversary most of its runtime, which often feels less like make Boy come together like it should. B of his Halloween-night rampage. As the body count piles up like so many churros on a taco cart, Green and co-writer Danny McBride stack their script with comic riffs and referential winks: teenage make- outs, frantic escapes through a dark wood, death by ax and steel-toe boot and bathroom stall. Halloween works because it’s so fundamental, and funny too: While Michael lurches, Curtis has a great time in a gray fright wig, swinging her shotgun and screaming at everyone to get in the safe room. By the end she might even get her guy. But hate never really dies, as any true horror fan knows—and neither, if the box office is strong enough, do bogeymen. B+

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RATING R | LENGTH 2 hrs., 21 mins.

REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

IS PULP A GENRE SQUEEZED DRY, or can the right writer-director still find new juice in a tale as old as midnight-movie time? Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) does his baby- Tarantino best with the low-concept, high- Wrong from write: literary forger Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) style El Royale—a riot of plot points and famous faces run bloodily amok in the doll- Can You Ever Forgive Me? house diorama of a mystery motel situated STARRING Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells smack on the California-Nevada border. A few hard years past its Rat Pack glory DIRECTED BY Marielle Heller | RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 46 mins. days, the Royale’s lobby looks like a casino REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats without a clientele—all wet bars, gold ban- quettes, and swirly carpeting. But suddenly MIDLIFE IS NOT GOING WELL FOR LEE ISRAEL (MELISSA MC CARTHY). the lone employee, a jumpy bellhop named She’s broke, she drinks too much, her cat is sick, and her books don’t Miles (Lewis Pullman), has traffic: a travel- sell; even her hair looks like a depressed ferret. She’s as clever as any ing salesman (Jon Hamm), a singer (Cynthia writer out there, but she doesn’t know how to play the New York publishing Erivo), a Catholic priest (Jeff Bridges), and a game—schmoozing, making nice, not stealing toilet paper and shrimp canapés pouty-lipped hippie (Dakota Johnson), each from her editor’s cocktail parties. So, after stumbling into a happy accident at with their own luggage, and baggage. the public library, she decides to invent her own literary game, impersonating ROYALE EL AT THE TIMES BAD How they’ll connect—and how many will the private letters of beloved long-dead celebrities (Fanny Brice, Noël Coward, live through the night—is ostensibly Bad’s Dorothy Parker). Soon, her witty epistles are thrilling collectors and paying the endgame. Mostly, though, it’s an excuse to rent. It’s just that they aren’t technically hers; also, they’re a federal crime. let a bunch of talented actors loose, and they Can You Ever Forgive Me?’s premise is so low-key outrageous, it would almost meet the bare-bones script more than half-

have to be true. And it is: a shaggy, endearingly sour portrait of the kind of old- FRENCH : KIMBERLEY way. Chris Hemsworth especially has a school eccentric the world hardly seems to have room for anymore. Director great, hammy turn as a mad cult leader with Marielle Heller (2015’s excellent The Diary of a Teenage Girl) ﬂawlessly re-creates butterscotch abs and a brain full of spiders. the early-’90s Manhattan of Woody Allen and Seinfeld reruns, a leached-brown But it’s British stage actress Erivo who feels

city marked by windy park benches, linoleum-countered diners, and cluttered /FOX; like the real star. Her steely charisma and

apartments. McCarthy, utterly transformed, tamps down her manic comic energy ME? FORGIVE EVER YOU CAN gorgeous powerhouse of a voice (Goddard into a sort of squirrelly, quietly furious ball as a woman who desperately wants to takes every plausible opportunity to let her connect but can’t help hating everyone she meets. And her interplay with addled loose on a classic 1960s songbook; can you bon vivant Jack Hock (Richard E. Grant), her fellow outcast and barfly, is fantas- blame him?) is what gives the movie not just tic; they’re two forever-square pegs soaked in well whiskey and bitchery. a different kind of heroine, but a heart. B If Can You Ever’s actual story (penned with dry panache by Nicole Holofcener : MARY CYBULSKI/FOX SEARCHLIGHT and Jeff Whitty) feels slight, it’s worth staying just to spend two hours with these characters. Not only Jack and Lee, but the cynics, kooks, and loners who populate the rest of it: Lee’s crisply dismissive editor (Jane Curtin); the gawky, tender- Wet hearted bookstore owner reaching out from her own loneliness (Dolly Wells); a T-shirt contest conga line of eager buyers and rent boys and FBI agents. The movie, like the real winner story, eventually doles out its consequences, but Heller never really judges. It’s Chris Hemsworth always better to ask for forgiveness, after all, than permission. B+ MORE ON EW.COM NOW PLAYING To read full reviews, head to Your complete guide to films in theaters this week ew.com/movies

BLOCKBUSTERS

NIGHT SCHOOL | Directed by Malcolm D. Lee Starring Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Taran Killam W Haddish and Hart both deserve better than a back-to-school comedy that careens like a rogue party balloon; way too much air is wasted on slapstick and barf jokes. C+

A STAR IS BORN | Directed by Bradley Cooper Starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Dice Clay W Gaga deserves praise for her restrained human-scale performance; so do the songs, and the supporting cast. But it’s Cooper who carries this age-old tale of love and fame, recast in the intimate, sun-flared mode of ’70s cinema. B+

VENOM | Directed by Ruben Fleischer Starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed W Hardy goes Jekyll-and-Hyde as a reporter hosting a ravenous alien parasite in this tonally jumbled CGI mis- fire ripped from the pages of Marvel comics. Pass. C+

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: ERIK AAVATSMARK/NETFLIX THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER | Directed by Sara Colangelo Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Parker Sevak NL

22 JULY 22 In this emotionally prickly art-house drama, a teacher

X (2); (Gyllenhaal) believes one of her young charges is a poet prodigy, but her own grasp on reality may be slipping. B

: NETFLI PRIVATE LIFE | Directed by Tamara Jenkins Starring Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Kayli Carter N L APOSTLE , Hahn and Giamatti are note-perfect as a New York couple wrestling with infertility; writer-director Jenkins (TThe Savages) makes every detail and emotion ring truee. A–

GOOD VS. EVIL THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

22 JULY | Directed by Paul Greengrass Starring Jonas Strand Gravli, Anders Danielsen Lie NL Greengrass, the kinetic director of the best Bourne films, stages a faithfully grim reenactment of a 2011 terror- : FRANK MASI/SONY; ist attack in Norway by a right-wing zealot. B–

VENOM APOSTLE | Directed by Gareth Evans Starring Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton N Downton Abbey’s Stevens plays a former missionary who infiltrates a pagan religious cult (led by a wild-eyed Sheen) to find his kidnapped sister. If you’ve seen 1973’s The Wicker Man, you’ve seen this done better. B–

HOLD THE DARK | Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, Riley Keough N : NEAL PRESTON/WARNER BROS.; Dark’s stark, hyperviolent thriller has real Klondike-gothic style, though director Saulnier (Green Room) is ultimately a little too enamored of his snowbound nihilism. B A STAR ISA STAR BORN

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SHANNEN DOHERTY WASN’T thrilled when she first heard that Heathers was being rebooted. “I was in the middle of battling [breast] cancer,” the actress says of learning that there was going to be a series based on the cult classic, which centered on three best friends named Heather (including Doherty’s Heather Duke) and a couple (Winona Ryder and Christian Slater) who want them dead. “I had been going through chemo and had no hair when my [team] told me, ‘They’re remaking Heathers and they wanna know if you’d be interested,’ ” she recalls. “I said, ‘No. I don’t know how you could ever, ever remake it.’ ” But then she read the script. “I was blown away by how good it was, and how [new Heathers creator Jason A. Micallef] managed to be SCRUNCHIE: ISTOCKPHOTO respectful to the original but also bring his own spin to it,” says Doherty. “I had to do it.” She can’t reveal much about her role on the series, which was In a trailer for the initially scheduled to debut in /GETTY IMAGES; new March but, because of the show’s Heathers, subject matter, was first post- Shannen Doherty poned and then canceled after the teases Parkland, Fla., high school mass HEATHERS she has a “limited shooting. (Paramount Network

but very ultimately decided to put it back NETWORK; : PARAMOUNT memorable on its schedule, though Micallef role.” REBOOT ALERT! says they’ve combined episodes 9 and 10 into one installment after the original final episode was deemed “too controversial for U.S.

audiences.”) But Doherty says that BLACK-IS filming the reboot “was great,

AWHOLENEWHEATHERS particularly at that point in my H: RON TOM/ABC life,” and describes her character Almost 30 years after her 1989 cult-classic film, Shannen Doherty,47, as “weak in some ways and strong returns to the world of the Heathers on a new Paramount Network series. in others, but really is just no- BY PATRICK GOMEZ holds-barred and says whatever

THE 26-WORD REVV IEW > black-iish (ABC, Oct. 16) Is there anything better than a Junior-centric season 5 opener? Just Dre and Bow’s priceless

84 EW.COM LOGLINES Simply the Best Drew Barrymore, RuPaul, and Faith Hill will judge on James Corden and Mark Burnett’s new CBS talent competition series, The World’s Best. Family Ties Gina Gershon has been cast as Jughead’s (Cole Sprouse) mom in season 3 of Riverdale.

she wants. She’s a Heather.” stop tapping into her past once This new Heathers has been Heathers is done with its first sea- updated for the social media age son (which will be available to Old is new again: Nathan Fillion as a fortysomething trainee with a body-positive Heather stream on Paramount Network’s (Melanie Field), a male Heather streaming services on Oct. 22 (Brendan Scannell), and a Heather before airing on the network over The Rookie : ERIC MCCANDLESS/ABC ERIC :

1988: NEW PICTURES/ WORLD of color (Jasmine Mathews), but a five-day period beginning DATE Debuts Oct. 16 | TIME 10 p.m. Doherty believes it remains true Oct. 25). “Kevin [Smith] sent me to the spirit of the film. “Heathers the script for [a second] Mallrats NETWORK ABC THE ROOKIE THE HEATHERS waswayaheadofitstime,”she a while ago,” she says of a possi- REVIEW BY Darren Franich @DarrenFranich says. “All of the characters were ble sequel to their 1995 film. “I kind of jerks. Now that’s the norm, love Kevin and would be a part of butbackthenwedidn’thavealot anything that he’s involved in.” THE ROOKIE of big characters with flaws. Not that she’s down to be in every IN ’S FIRST SCENE, JOHN NOLAN HOLDS HIS [Original Heathers writer] Dan new version of her past projects: divorce papers and gets pistol-whipped by a Waters did it with a wink, wink, “Somebody asked me, ‘Would bank robber. Rough couple of minutes—but 2018: PARAMOUNT 2018: NETWORK; you do the Charmed reboot?’ nudge, nudge; Jason brings that John is played by Nathan Fillion, so you can’t help but to the new Heathers.” And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t be charmed. Fillion became an old-fashioned TV star HEATHERS GETTY IMAGES; DOHERTY: GETTY IMAGES; DOHERTY: GETTY IMAGES; And Doherty doesn’t want to be the reboot queen!’ ” across years of Castle, and the good thing about The Rookie is how effectively ABC has conjured a similar- ( Clockwise from top ) Doherty, Lisanne but-different vehicle for their network player’s Falk, Kim Walker, and Winona Ryder in charisma. But Castle was a fantasy of sleuthdom, 1989’s Heathers; Doherty in January whereas John joins the LAPD as a fortysomething street 2018; New Heathers: cop, and the brute reality leaves him gasping for air. Melanie Field, Bren- ann ,and “Personal Reinvention Via Law Enforcement” sounds Jasmine Matthews like a cheap pitch, and other characters are skeptical of John’s whole premise. His sergeant (Richard T. Jones) thinks he’s a walking midlife crisis; his training officer, Talia Bishop (Afton Williamson), thinks he’s a career roadblock. This brings up the other good thing about The Rookie: It isn’t just Nathan Fillion Solves Crimes. The pilot establishes his fellow newbies—no-bull Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) and legacy cop Jackson (Titus Makin)—as full-fledged characters, with their own talents and struggles. Another training officer, Angela (Alyssa Diaz), has a friendly rivalry with Bishop. The pilot’s a hit-or-miss grab bag of loopy Los Angeles criminality: man having a breakdown on Hollywood Boulevard, missing child locked in a car mid–heat wave, Cop Car Copulation. The tone veers, sometimes madly, between humane cleverness and speechy solemnity. But this feels like an ensemble with real potential. At one point, long day done, the rookie cops flee to a karaoke joint. Lucy and Jackson duet on Rihanna—and John just sits patiently, enjoying the show like the rest of us. B parental tailspin upon learning he wants to take a “gap year.” B+ —KRISTEN BALDWIN

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 85 TV QUEER WINDOW Carson Kressley, 48, redesigns homes with his Queer Eye costar Thom Filicia on Get a Room (debuting Oct. 19 at 9 p.m. on Bravo). BY GERRAD HALL

How did this new How nervous were series come about? you to design other I got bit by the people’s homes? home-design bug and I tend to be very Scott I was like, “Hmmm, confident with matters Wilson in who could actually of style. But interiors, season 4 of The teach me to do this?” while they are similar, Walking And the obvious there’s a lot more Dead in choice was Thom. science. There were 1942–2018 2013 Somebody at the same a lot of unknowns time—and I think it was that I was discovering serendipitous because on the fly, and I Queer Eye was being thought, “Wow, I’m rebooted—was like, going to get fired in Remembering “You could do this as a the first episode.” show,” and we were like, “We’d love to!” What do you two bring to home-design TV It’s been more than 10 that others don’t? ScottWilson yearssinceyouwere It’s about the journey The In Cold Blood actor had more than 50 film credits, but he will perhaps last on TV together on with me and Thom, and be remembered best as kindhearted Hershel on The Walking Dead. the original Queer Eye. having a great time on What was the first day diferent projects. And BY DALTON ROSS like as the two of you in every episode we’re filmed a series again? doing major spaces

It was a little weird with large budgets in DEAD WALKING THE THERE WAS A SURPRISE WAIT- crew were wearing Her- Night. That same year, he maybe for the first hour really over-the-top ing for Scott Wilson when shel’s trademark suspend- starred in In Cold Blood as when we were like, “Oh homes, and at the he showed up for his last ers in tribute. “It was really real-life murderer Richard my God, we’re doing same time doing more day of work on AMC’s The quite moving,” Wilson told Hickock, a role he beat out this again!” Then we approachable spaces Walking Dead.Itwasback EW at the time. Five years Steve McQueen and Paul were just back to our with much smaller PAGE/AMC; : GENE in 2013, and Wilson’s char- later, tributes from the Newman to get. Dozens of old high jinks. It helps budgets. It’s a great acter, veterinarian–turned– Walking Dead cast and film roles followed— that we have been mix that isn’t out there. farmer–turned–zombie- crew once again poured in including one in 1980’s friends—before, dur- apocalypse survivor after the news broke Oct. 6 The Ninth Configuration,

ing, and after Queer Are you the new Chip BLOOD COLD IN Hershel Greene, was about that the 76-year-old Wilson for which he was nomi- Eye. The only difer- and Joanna Gaines of to meet his maker. As he had passed away the day nated for a Golden Globe— ence is that now there Fixer Upper fame? arrived on the prison set at before due to complica- but Wilson truly catapulted were cameras rolling Oh, gosh, not until I Raleigh Studios in Senoia, tions from leukemia. back into the spotlight

again—and we’re wear- have a baby! And I own : MOVIESTORE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; KRESSLEY: RODOLFO MARTINEZ/BRAVO Ga., Wilson was greeted Born in Thomasville, Ga., when he joined TWD in ing eyebroweyebrowpe pencilncil. a silo.silo with a steady stream of Wilson made his film season 2. applause. Not only that, debut as a murder suspect While Hershel served as but the entire cast and in 1967’s In the Heat of the the heart and conscience of the Walking Dead cast Wilson ( right ) with Robert Blake in 1967’s In Cold Blood on screen, Wilson (who is He’s made survived by his wife of 41 himself over! Carson years, Heavenly Koh Wil- Kressley son) was similarly beloved trades fashion for his kindness and quiet styling for strength of camera. And home styling. fans will get to see him in his most famous role once again. The actor filmed a TWD return this past summer that will air in season 9, giving Wilson— and his suspenders—one final curtain call.

86 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 A CHAT WITH BEEBO Legends’ resident Caity Lotz, fuzzy toy/Viking god/ Tala Ashe, supersize savior Dominic Purcell, Nick Zano, and Brandon Were you scared Routh go to fighting a giant demon in Woodstock the season 3 finale? in the Demon scaaaary. But season 4 premiere Beebo solves most problems with hugs!

Did you like having five WHYYOUSHOULDBEWATCHING Legends within you, con- trolling you like Voltron? LEGENDSOFTOMORROW Beebo la-la-loves company! How did it feel to be EW stafers Chancellor Agard and Shirley Li share their love of worshipped as a god (in The CW’s wackiest—and most wonderful?—superhero series ahead of “Beebo God of War”)? the season 4 premiere (Oct. 22 at 9 p.m.) Being a god can be lo-lo-lonely. Beebo just wants everyone to la-la-love each other! CHANCELLOR Legends of Tomorrow isn’t just Legends begs viewers to suspend their disbelief, my favorite superhero show. I believe it’s one but could it be in danger of turning into a col- of the most entertaining TV shows, full lection of silly vignettes rather than substantial If you could time-travel stop. Equally bonkers and brilliant, the fourth comic-book arcs? anywhere, when/where Arrowverse series follows a group of time would you want to go to? travelers—featuring Arrow and The Flash stand- CHANCELLOR Sometimes I feel guilty about Beebo wants to ride a outs Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) and Heat Wave focusing on the show’s wild antics—like the time woolly mammoth! (Dominic Purcell)—saving history, and suc- they traveled to WWI and asked J.R.R. Tolkien to cessfully jumps the shark on a weekly basis. help them find Jesus’ blood—but then I remem- Which Legend secretly (Last season ended with a battle between a ber that the crazy plots do have depth. After all, cuddles you the most? Is it gigantic Tickle Me Elmo-like toy [see sidebar] most of their fights are about their insecurities, Mick [Dominic Purcell]? and a dragon demon. What other show would about proving to themselves that they’re not Mick lo-lo-loathes cuddles. dare do that?) I know I’m not alone in my affec- total screwups. (Time-traveling heroes: They’re [Shakes head]ButNathan- tion for the show. Shirley, what do you think just like us!) Also, the upcoming season 4 iel [Nick Zano], for makes this series such a gem? premiere has a murderous unicorn terrorizing suuuuuuure! Woodstock—yes, you read that right—but SHIRLEY Where to begin? The pop-culture- balances that out with more human subplots referencing episode titles? The fan-servicing about Sara’s romance with Time Bureau boss Ava meta-humor? The fact that every cast member (Jes Macallan) and Nate’s (Nick Zano) relation- aims to chew as much scenery as possible? In ship with his estranged father (Tom Wilson). season 1, the show was the awkward Arrow- I’ll admit it’s a lot to take in, so to wrap up, where verse outlier trying too hard; now, by taking should newcomers start if they want to watch?

W (2) itself less seriously, it’s the lone series that makes ensemble superhero—not to mention SHIRLEY The ninth and tenth hours of season /THE C time-travel—storytelling look easy. Take last 2—during which the team must save the Star season’s “Here I Go Again”: The episode’s built Wars franchise and stop the Legion of Doom— on elements that shouldn’t work, from center- work well as a litmus test. Or try season 2, ing on a new addition (Tala Ashe’s Zari) to episode 14: In it, Victor Garber’s Dr. Martin : DEAN BUSCHER using the trope of time loops as plot fuel. And Stein sings “The Banana Boat Song” inside yet, it delivers an entertaining hour that doubles NASA’s Mission Control center—and if that as a deeper character study, simply because Leg- doesn’t convince you of Legends’ charm, I don’t ends knows how to have fun. That said, I worry know what will. But with that, I’m afraid we’re the show could go too far with experimentation. out of…time. (Sorry. Had to.) The Legends writers sw-sw- swear Beebo answered these questions himself...herself? MORE ON EW’S SIRIUSXM CHANNEL

DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW OF LEGENDS DC’S Agard and Li cohost Superhero Insider with Kyle Anderson every Friday at 1 p.m. on SiriusXM Channel 105

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 87 A handy guide to solve your daily TV dilemmas* Edited By | GERRAD HALL @GERRADHALL

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IT’S FUNNY CUZ IT’S TRUE Series Debut The Conners 8–8:30PM | ABC Roseanne apparently doesn’t make it

out alive? But can BRING THE PAIN Everyone will this spin-of survive without her? Here’s be talking about hoping Dan, Jackie it tomorrow & Co. can carry on COLLECTION; : EVERETT the comedy’s legacy. R.I.P. Roseanne’s Cultureshock: Chris Rock’s “Bring the Pain” classic cackle. 10–11:15PM | A&E Chris Rock reflects on his searing 1996 HBO Series Debut

special, Bring the Pain, which tackled O.J., THIS IS US This Is Us The Rookie “black people vs. n-----s,” and more. In “trying 9–10PM | NBC 10–11PM | ABC to surprise himself,” says director W. Kamau

The emotionally charged family drama sends Dennis Quaid BATZDORFF/NBC; : RON Bell (CNN’s United Shades of America), he Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) into the trenches of Nathan Fillion stars ended up “surprising and pushing all of us.” Vietnam for a showcase episode that also as a middle-aged delves into the bond between the Pearson Major League Base- Series Debut patriarch and his little-discussed younger ball hopeful LAPD Good Eats: Reloaded brother, Nicky (Michael Angarano), who recruit who inspires 9–9:30PM served with him. “Their story is compli- the high school team BLACK-ISH COOKING CHANNEL cated,” creator Dan Fogelman tells EW, “and he coaches is hitting What’s old is new! goes in a direction that people won’t quite reset on his life and

Alton Brown updates expect or guess.” The potent, unconvention- pursuing his dream, : ERIC MCCANDLESS/ABC classic episodes with ally unspooled hour starts to fill in pieces of determined to pitch new recipes, science, Jack’s pain-stained past, and “explores what a fastball prove and humor. On the war does to a family and how the sins of our his father ranking menu: reverse- fathers inform the sins of our sons and oficers wrong. May seared rib eye, cast- daughters,” he says. “It’s about Vietnam, but the (police) force iron skillets, and wit. at its core, it’s really about two brothers.” be with him.

black-ish STREAMING | ABC.COM, HULU Season 4 of the hit comedy has two of star Anthony Anderson’s favorite episodes: the “Juneteenth” premiere and the Monopoly showdown. “My family and friends…we get into each other’s faces,” he says. And after a dark-ish (but stellar) end to last season that found Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) and Dre separat- Devour ing, they’re now “back together and sticking it through. Black love reigns supreme!” The it all at once season 5 opener (Oct. 16, 9 p.m. on ABC) also focuses on Junior, who’s home on a gap year before starting college, trying to overcome “the challenges that young men go through trying to prove themselves.”

88 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 *TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE What to Watch

STEPHEN AMELL EMILY BETT RICKARDS BROKEN “It’s been a very, very “She’s upset, she’s hurt, unique year because she’s lonely, and she’s I am in prison,” he says. heartbroken [over Oliver’s ARROW “I’ve [only] had one day unilateral decision to on set this year where go to prison]. So, all of Oliver and Felicity face I’m not covered in cuts those intense emotions pain and isolation in Arrow and bruises.” together don’t make for season 7 (premieres Oct. 15 the best recipe.” at 8 p.m. on The CW)

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THIS ONE’S FOR THE GIRLS Season Finale To Catch a Killer CMT Artists 10–11PM | ID of the Year An Illinois police 8–9:30PM | CMT captain may have a For the first time, the serial killer on his only honorees at this hands when two annual event will be residents who live women of country an hour from each music: Carrie Under- other are murdered. Series Debut wood, Miranda How is the suspect Wanderlust Lambert, Maren Mor- able to stay one STREAMING | NETFLIX ris, Hillary Scott, and step ahead of the In one captivatingly mature talk, : JULIE VRABELOVA/AMAZON STUDIOS; JULIE VRABELOVA/AMAZON : more. Loretta Lynn, police? And what a happily married couple (Toni : NETFLIX LORE who’s still putting out role did Leonardo Collette, Steven Mackintosh) new music at 86, will DiCaprio’s Catch Me confront afairs and their bad receive the “Artist of if You Can have in sex, and find a solution. Now I’m /NETFLIX; a Lifetime” award. it? (Answer: None.) lusting for more. B+ —Gerrad Hall Season Premiere Lore

MAKING A MURDERER A MAKING STREAMING | NETFLIX THREE-NIGHT LEAF-VENT : MATT SQUIRE MATT : Jason Voorhees. Freddy Krueger. Michael Myers. These big-screen killers are all fictional, of course, but that Autumnwatch: New England doesn’t make them any less scary. Even more terrifying, if 8–9PM | PBS

WANDERLUST that’s even possible, are the heinous, true-story-inspired New Hampshire-raised Samantha Brown : LUCY BOWDEN/BBC; (2); acts that unfold in the second season of this series (based can’t wait for viewers to see New England’s on Aaron Mahnke’s popular podcast), featuring just one sites and culture in this three-night live event. story per episode. Such as: two Irish immigrants in Scot- “Once autumn is done, it’s gone for another land who discover they can make a lot of money by killing year,” the travel host says. “So we take time people whose bodies become medical research; and a now to celebrate it.” She’s, well, pumped for widowed countess who lures women to her castle and

: JACK ROWAND/THE CW the New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival, with its uses their virgin blood to preserve her youth. Murder 34-foot pumpkin tower and pumpkin bowl- shouldn’t be “fun” to watch, yet Lore is strangely ARROW AUTUMNWATCH: NEW ENGLAND ing. “I love pumpkins and I’ve never been.” engrossing. Consider me a serial viewer. B —Gerrad Hall

Making a Murderer STREAMING | NETFLIX On Dec. 18, 2015, a true-crime docuseries dropped on Netflix with little fanfare—but soon it was all anyone could talk about. Filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos spent 10 years investigating the legal travails of Wisconsin resident Steven Avery, whose history with the Manitowoc County Sherif’s department is fraught with more hostility and intrigue than all seven seasons of Game of Thrones. The last three years, Mur- derer’s legacy has continued of screen, as every beat of Avery’s case—he and nephew Brendan Dassey are appealing their convictions in the murder of young photographer Teresa Halbach—makes headlines. With part 2 premiering Oct. 19, it’s the perfect time to discover (or relive) the visceral experience of watching Murderer’s initial 10 episodes, a multifaceted trag- edy about the elusiveness of truth. —Kristen Baldwin

ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARTIN LAKSMAN OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 89 UNLIKELY DUO ITHINKOURFANS DESERVETO KNOWYOUMORE.” —ZAC BROWN, to Shawn Mendes, who joins the country star and his band in the latest CMT Crossroads (Oct. 24, 10 p.m.), collaborating on Mendes’ “Mercy” and “In My Blood,” and Brown’s “Colder Weather” and “Homegrown,” among others (like a must-hear cover of Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”).

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DuckTales C ROSSROADS 7:30–8AM | DISNEY Louie thinks he and the family are going : to have a quiet game RICK DIAMOND Everyone will night at home (presumably not Duck, betalking about Duck, Goose), but / it tomorrow they’re suddenly fac- CMT; FOR GETTY IMAGES ing of against a The Loverinthe Attic savage civilization 8–10PM | LIFETIME and trying to avoid Based on a true story, this tale of a bored shrink rays. Rick G

1930s housewife who starts an afair with an LAZER Moranis, dat you?

aspiring writer (then coaxes him into living in HO : RAY TAMARRA/GC IMAGES; TAMARRA/GC : RAY her attic for several years so they can resume C Love, of Course POS US their romance!) lacks enough thrill—despite Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary 8–10PM | HALLMARK

its insane story line—to truly seduce its audi- CUS Halloween Bash Widowed mom Amy

ence. Still, beats cabin fever. B —Ruth Kinane : 8:15–10:15PM | FREEFORM (Kelly Rutherford) is ANDREW Sisters! Freeform is running amok for this preparing to be an

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crew interviews. As director Kenny Ortega handsome, charm- loween episode, asetback with her D : (who executive-produced the special) mar- ing,cultured includes plant body- investment deal, P. JOHNSON/HBO JOHN veled at Winifred tattoos and Billy professor (Cameron snatchers, an while Frank is on a Butcherson costumes, the evening put a spell Mathison) and dis- oyster-eating con- high from the honey-

on him: “I had all of these hopes for the movie. covers in Starting test vs. the mythical moon period of his C : For this audience to have embraced it in this Over101that a new Cthulhu, and a retire- relationship.Butthat LIFETIME; capacity…[it’s] incredible wish fulfillment.”In life isoutthere wait- ment home. Oh, and could also be a num- other words, he found it quite lovely. ing for her. Mr. Burns, of course. ber of substances. (3)

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Westworld STREAMING | HBO NOW, HBO GO “My husband made me binge-watch Westworld. It freaks me out,” Broad City co-creator and star Ilana Glazer admitted to EW on the Emmys gold carpet of the science-fiction Western-thriller set at a high-tech, Wild West-themed amusement Devour park. Run by Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), it’s inhabited by android “hosts,” Evan Rachel itall at once Wood’s Dolores and Thandie Newton’s Maeve among them. Glazer eventually couldn’t get enough: “It’s so good and you’re in a world, but it trips me out. I was like, ‘Stop, for the ninth time, let us stop,’ but I plunged in and it was great.”

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I ' M NOT YOU' RE DOGGONEHEROES C RYING C RYING Hallmark celebrates paws-itively impressive pooches on the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards—fur real! We shih tzu not! Meet some of the winners, and tune in WILLOW ROXY CHI CHI SGT. FIELDY (Oct. 24, 8 p.m.) to see the emotional and “Emerging Hero Dog” “Service Dog” “American Hero Dog” “Military Dog” inspiring stories of these diamonds in the ruff. winner winner winner winner

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: sas. In not-shocking Thrones) stars on the BBC export news: Things get as a military vet with PTSD and ADAM SANDLER: 100% FRESH OZARK awkward whenthe a failing marriage who signs on STREAMING | NETFLIX diverse group (not a to protect a top government Would it be an Adam Sandler comedy Season Premiere scarecrow, lion, and oficial (Keeley Hawes). Whether special if he didn’t sing? From what we’ve DC’s Legends of Tomorrow tin man) bringsup he agrees with her politics—or glimpsed so far (and little has been revealed) 9–10PM | THE CW cultural topics in stays out of her bed—forms the

'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW of his first one in 20-plus years—who can Peace at last! The bumbling Leg- small-town America. core of the drama’s six-episode DC forget 1996’s What the Hell Happened to ; ends will no longer be at odds arc. But from its opening scene, Me?—he’s flanked by instruments, guitar in with the uptight Time Bureau A President Show a breathless 20-minute set piece hand. If history is any judge, 100% FRESH when the zany Arrowverse show Documentary: on a passenger train, it’s clear will be anything but rotten. returns—and it’s not just because The Fall of that no loyalty will go untested Sara (Caity Lotz) is dating the Donald Trump or plot untwisted. En garde, Bureau’s director, Ava (Jes 11–11:30PM Season Premiere Netflixer. A– —Leah Greenblatt Macallan). “Having saved time COMEDY CENTRAL The Guest Book from Mallus, they have earned This 2030-setmock- 10–11PM | TBS the ability to walk into the Time umentary looks back At Nikki and Tommy’s Bureau with their heads held onthepresident’s Bare Feet Retreat, high. We wanted to integrate last days in ofice. We visitors record in the : SCOTT YAMANO/NETFLIX; MARTIN: VIVIEN KILLILEA/GETTY IMAGES;

ALEXXHENRY/ALEXXHENRYSTUDIOS,LLC(4) them into the world of the Bureau were hoping “fall of” titular journal their : S and legitimize them,” says EP wouldbevideo of messages, confes- Phil Klemmer. “The influence of him tripping or slip- sions, etc.—like how AWARD

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Ozark STREAMING | NETFLIX “It’s an amazing, amazing show,” Game of Thrones mastermind George R.R. Martin told EW on the Emmys gold carpet after taking in the second season of this Netflix crime drama starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney. “The characters are what it’s about, I think, in anything—the human heart in conflict with itself. So if a show has great characters, it’ll hook me every time. I want to know what becomes of them.” And if anyone knows how do to that, it’s Martin.

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the X-Men and Harry Potter, the spin-of last course, and AMAZON PRIME VIDEO to a wheelchair- CW D. COLBERT/THE : QUANTRELL follows Hope Mikaelson, the supernatural arguably the best Before he plays the bound daughter. PREACHER daughter of an Original vampire, at a (don’t @ me): Joker, see Joaquin He’s an “idiot” with a

school for similarly gifted (werewolves, dessert. From pas- Phoenix be a good prison-dwelling past. CLAMER/ : MATTHIAS vampires, witches) youngsters, but it’s not sion fruit crème guy rescuing young Can she open up her bound to those influences/its predeces- brûlée in Hawaii to women from bad heart? They sing all sors. The pilot is confident and fun, and lemon icebox pie situations. But things about it in this movie firmly establishes a new part of the world in Mississippi, this may not be exactly musical set in Lon- worth watching. B+ —Chancellor Agard one is suhweeeeet! what they seem. don’s Camden Town.

Dynasty STREAMING | NETFLIX, CWTV.COM Season 2 (Fridays, 8 p.m. on The CW) is already delivering Car- rington family drama, showing a new side of patriarch Blake. “He has a real darkness to his core,” EP Sallie Patrick says. “That’s something we are going to be Devour exploring more.” But it’s not too late to catch up with the oh-so- it all at once rich-and-twisted family. Binge season 1 for the Sammy Jo/ Anders story line, and don’t dare skip the finale, “Dead Scratch,” with its multiple shocking twists.

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HOLIDAY SPIRIT Season Premiere Busy Tonight Ray Donovan 10–10:30PM | E! 9–10PM SHOWTIME : DIYAH PERA/ DEAN Christmas at | Looking at her social Pemberley Manor After that season 5 media accounts, it’s 8–10PM | HALLMARK finale clif-hanger— no wonder that wife, She’s a New York where Ray follows mom, and Dawson’s event planner orga- his wife’s ghost, Creek alum Busy nizing a small-town plunging into NYC’s Philipps is getting festival. He’s a nota- East River—it’s not her own late-night ble—and cranky?— about if he lives talk show (airing billionaire trying to (uh, his name is the Sundays to Wednes-

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA sell the titular estate title!) but who saves days), with celebrity she needs as a him. One person it guests, her hot takes venue. Can she open isn’t? See below. on all things pop : NETFLIX; up her heart? It’s a culture, and more. Hallmark movie— Series Debut We can’t wait to what do you think? Amanda to the watch her freak (and Rescue Series Debut geeks) flag fly! Zombie at 17 9–10PM | ANIMAL PLANET Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj HOMECOMING KING HOMECOMING 8–10PM | LIFETIME Amanda Giese has STREAMING | NETFLIX She’s a normal teen real-world problems After recently “graduating from comedy college,” The Daily Show who caught a virus to worry about, like alum Hasan Minhaj decided that his postgrad work would be focused and is slowly turning two puppies and a on creating his own “comedy investigative visual podcast” for Netflix, into a zombie. And pregnant Chihuahua drawing inspiration from the visual storytelling he fell in love with her boyfriend’s injured during Cali- during his 2017 stand-up special, Homecoming King (pictured above). friend is murdered. fornia’s wildfires. See “I know that sounds crazy, but it really played to my strengths,” he

: ANIMAL PLANET/JASON ELIAS; But can she open up how she wrangles a shares. “I’m lucky to have found my own lane. It feels diferent and her heart and a plane and saves them new.” The comedian also feels lucky to have landed at the streaming (5) reclusive doctor stop from a crowded service, considering its availability around the globe. “Growing up the disease before county shelter…on here, I felt like an outsider,” admits Minhaj, who will be the first it’s too late? It’s a this series that’s just Indian-American host of a weekly comedy show. “And now, because Lifetime movie— as intense as any of the global platform I have as an outsider in America, I can commu- BUSCHER/NETFLIX CRIKEY! IT'S THE IRWINS THE IT'S CRIKEY! what do you think? scripted TV drama. nicate out to the world. It’s that opportunity that I’m really excited for.”

Series Debut Chilling Adventures of Sabrina STREAMING | NETFLIX For 16 years, Sabrina Spellman has gotten to live in the mortal world during the school day and the immortal world (with her aunts) at night. But on her 16th birthday, the half-mortal/half-witch has to decide if she’s going to sign her soul over to the Dark Lord—think Satan—and leave behind her human friends for her not-so-human powers. And that’s where Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina kicks of. “She’s struggling between these two completely separate worlds that she identifies so strongly with,” star Kiernan Shipka says. “It’s this really interesting struggle that plays out throughout the season.” For 10 episodes, the horror series’ first season will follow Sabrina’s journey further into the witch world. “Every episode is so charged with events and chaos,” Shipka adds. “But Sabrina’s got enough power to carry herself through.”

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Edited By | A LEX SUS KIND @ ALEXJSUSK IND

What made you want to release an album now? We’ve done lots of tours over the years, and that’s always been pretty easy. I was the one that always wanted to record a new record. I was the one that said, “Well, if we’re going to play live, we do need new songs.” Without new music, you’re just doing a nostalgia thing, which has its limitations. Too much nostalgia is just boring. It was a very diferent process making this record, I was a lot more open to suggestions. My thing’s always been the lyrics and the melody. With the melo- dies, this time I let Roy [Hay, gui- tarist] and Mikey [Craig, bassist] make suggestions, and I was quite open to them—to my surprise!

You essentially recorded Life twice, first with the producer Youth and then again with the duo Future Cut. Why? We rerecorded it because of the mood that we were in. I think we were just in a better space. We’d been on the road and we’d played a lot of these songs live. It’s a bit of a luxury to be able to play songs live and then record again, because they do actually change. I mean, one of the songs on the record, “Runaway Train,” was a complete country, Johnny Cash-sounding track and now it sounds like Gladys Knight & the Pips.

“Runaway Train” also has a lyric that references Michelle Obama [“So many people trying to be someone/Michelle Obama, you know my name”]. BOY OH BOY What’s that about? I wrote the lyrics during the RANKIN Boy George and Culture Club are back with Life, their first album of new material Obama administration. I was actu- since 1999. The enigmatic frontman chats with EW about their ally on tour in Boston. It was return, avoiding nostalgia, and threatening to quit the band. BY CLARK COLLIS really a travelogue, which I’ve

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NOTEWORTHY Back to School St. Vincent released MassEducation, a stripped-down version of her 2017 record Masseduction. Simply the Best Tina, a musical based on the life of legendary singer Tina Turner, is set to hit Broadway in 2019.

never done before. I used to A few of the tracks, including Elle King laugh at the idea of people writing the single “Let Somebody Love TITLE Shake the Spirit about being on the road. [Laughs] You,” have a strong reggae

I used to say, “Who writes about vibe. Did you listen to a lot of LABEL RCA | GENRE Rock that?” But I set myself a challenge that while making Life? to write about traveling around I’ve always liked reggae music. REVIEW BY Rebecca Haithcoat America. That particular tour was I’m always surprised when @rhaithcoat the first tour I’d done since my people don’t love it, but there life had got quite complicated are people out there who and dark. [The singer, whose real don’t. Look, there are people out ELLE KING’S GLITTERY name is George O’Dowd, had there who don’t like Bowie! gold platform a history of substance abuse and I’ve met them! I’ve met people boots were made for served time in 2009 for assault that have said to me, “Yeah, stompin’—and that’s just what and false imprisonment.] I sup- I didn’t ever really get into she does on the hip-swiveling pose I really realized how lucky Bowie.” I’m like, “Well, which Shake the Spirit, her sassy yet sur- I was to be on the road, to be period did you [not] get into?” prisingly vulnerable sophomore making music, to be out there, Because there’s so many album. Half-jokingly subtitled diferent parts of Bowie. And being loved and adored. “The year I lost my f---ing mind” I think the same thing with by the sultry and self-deprecating You’re currently on tour in reggae music. People who King, Spirit slides easily from America with the B-52s and don’t like reggae music, I think, the wreckage of hard-partying Tom Bailey of the Thompson are quite disturbing. Twins. What’s it been like to nights (“You can live forever, play around the U.S. at this You’ve said that someone babe/Walk with me in the shad- point in its history? in Culture Club is always ows,” she beckons over the surf My sense of things is that you threatening to quit. Who was rock of “Shame,” a splashy can’t talk about politics without the last person to do that? album standout) to her bad-girl upsetting people. There’s been Probably me. [Laughs]Itwas WHEN I’M beginnings (“It Girl”) and back a few nights when Fred Schneider some stupid thing. I wanted to the morning after with from the B-52s has made some to do a particular song, or WRITING ABOUT “Sober,” which shines a spotlight comments to the crowd about his I wanted to do a cover of some- on King’s husky, pack-a-day voice. political views, and people don’t thing, and Roy wasn’t into it, LOVE, I TEND Of course, much of the like it! [Laughs] and I went, “Oh, I’ll just leave TO COME FROM album’s loose-limbed, bourbon- the band, then.” He started soaked vibe can be attributed It’s fascinating that people laughing and he went, “You A SORT OF to its Beale Street blend of jangly could come to a Culture Club went there?” You know, one to MORRISSEY steel guitars strummed by ses- and B-52s show and then be a hundred! But I’m a Gemini. sion players with better stories That’s just who I am. surprised that some of the peo- ANGLE. I DON’T than everybody, and ivories ple on stage were liberal. tickled by wizened ﬁngers. But Be surprised that Fred Schneider You were on The New Celeb- DO ‘MOON ultimately, King and her tell-all is a Democrat? [Laughs]Itis rity Apprentice last year. IN JUNE.’ ” tone are what elevate Shake kind of bonkers. I guess it’s like, Do you keep in touch with any —BOY GEORGE “Spare us the details!” Like, of your castmates, if that’s the the Spirit from just another bar- “Yes, you’re a bunch of weirdos, right word? room-to-bedroom romp to a but we don’t want to hear about [Laughs] I still chat online with truly cathartic tale of a bad girl it!” I suppose it reminds me a Matt [Iseman], the guy who won. gone...better. little bit of when I came out as You’re always friendly to people “Pity the man that stands in a teenager, and the ’70s was very when you see them. Yeah, I only my way/I’m a nightmare even much a “Spare us the details!” fell out with Vince Neil, but I’m in the day,” she sings on “Baby culture, you know what I mean? sure if I saw him, he would give Outlaw.” With lyrics this fun, “Don’t frighten the horses!” me a big cuddle. who’d want it any other way? B+

OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 EW.COM 95 Music Look Up, Lauren Daigle The Christian-pop singer returned to her roots and scored a breakout in Look Up Child. She chats with EW about her surprise hit record. BY REBECCA HAITHCOAT

WHEN 21-YEAR-OLD The gamble paid of: Up Child. “[It] allowed Lauren Daigle tagged Her debut record, 2015’s me to get back to my along to an indie artist How Can It Be, went plati- roots. I realized it didn’t retreat on a last-minute num. But Daigle felt a dis- have to be manufactured,” Danny invitation from a local Wagner, connect from its sound. she says. Jake band, she had no idea her “Growing up and hearing Another winning Kiszka, life was about to change. the synergy between decision: Look Up Child Josh “All I heard was: ‘Free trip musicians, hearing them recently raced up the Kiszka, and Sam to the mountains,’ ” says respond to each other— Billboard 200toNo.3, Kiszka Daigle, now 27. But then I missed that when the shooting past stars like the lead singer of that project was so track- Drake, Nicki Minaj, and band was rushed of for heavy and electronically Ariana Grande. Child is Greta Van Fleet an emergency appendec- focused,” she explains. also the biggest debut tomy, and Daigle was For her second album, for a Christian-pop album TITLE Anthem of the Peaceful Army asked to step in. she decided to head in since Casting Crowns’ LABEL Lava/Republic | GENRE Rock “I sang one song, a direction that felt more 2009 release Until the and the label said, ‘Come authentic, and looked Whole World Hears. REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats to Nashville.’ ” back to her childhood in Daigle’s husky, hon- After a week of writing, Louisiana for inspiration. eyed voice—which has Daigle was so excited that During her formative earned comparisons to WHOEVER CAN LAY CLAIM TO THE she announced she was years Daigle listened to Adele—and meaningful leaving Louisiana State Uni- classic rock, and her seek-and-find lyrics have most musical currency now— versity—where she was school played Aretha clearly found an enthusi- post-gendered pop stars or studying with the goal of Franklin’s “Respect” astic audience. “There’s Swedish DJs, SoundCloud rappers with practicing pro bono law for before the Pledge of Alle- a rarity when you make human-traficking victims— giance. “Music is such the kind of music you candy-floss dreadlocks and tattoos scrib- and moving to Nashville, a part of our culture down were supposed to make. bled across their cheekbones—it’s not the all before any label ofers there,” she says. “It I got back in touch with guys holding guitars. If you’re looking for had materialized. “I dropped really shaped everything that on this record,” she my scholarships and said, I love musically.” says. “This is fully me.” the future of rock & roll, it might be more ‘I wanna do this,’ ” she says. That soul-searching helpful to check a lava lamp than a crystal found its way onto Look ball. Or just follow the ascendance of acts like Greta Van Fleet, three brothers and a friend from Frankenmuth, Mich. All 19 to 22, they may have faces made for Riverdale, but their sound is pure, uncut ’70s: big, riﬀy blues-rock anthems built for screaming arenas and lace-front leather pants. GRETA VAN FLEET: TRAVIS SHINN, DAIGLE: JEREMY COWART, WAYNE: NABIL WAYNE: COWART, JEREMY DAIGLE: SHINN, TRAVIS FLEET: VAN GRETA Me Decade signposts are all over Peaceful Army: Album opener “Age of Man” references “lands of ice and snow” without an apparent trace of irony; black-light jams “Watching Over,” “The New Day,” and “Mountain of the Sun” could slip into any AOR playlist undetected; and singer Josh Kiszka’s wail sounds so much like Robert Plant’s, it verges on copyright infringement. If Greta’s get-the-Led-out swagger is only imitation, it’s the sincerest form; there’s no sense of satirizing in their earnest, note- perfect tribute to the era—and apparently no statute of limitations, either. B

96 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 Lil Wayne

TITLE Tha Carter V

LABEL Young Money | GENRE Rap

REVIEW BY Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad

IN 2012, LIL WAYNE TALKED ABOUT THA Carter V being his final solo effort. However, due to contractual disputes with his label Cash Money, multiple release dates came and went. Meanwhile, Wayne dropped mixtapes and kept up a steady stream of guest verses, even as the genre shifted away from the sound he cemented in his prime. With Tha Carter V’s long-awaited drop last month, fans hoped for a revitalized Weezy. What exists instead is a collection of songs by a rapper fighting to reclaim a past era, as opposed to a thoughtful take on what those times meant to him and where he’s at now. Wayne’s consistently accelerating flow is still present here. On “Dedicate” and “Uproar,” he ends several bars with the same word, letting the interior rhyme structure carry the line. This is something Wayne does often and well, but the proximity of moments in which this technique is used highlights a glaring flaw: His punchlines, which used to save him, aren’t as sharp as they once were. The highlights come when Wayne finds himself dab- bling in regret or romance. The gentle “Dark Side of the Moon,” a duet with Nicki Minaj, outlines a love that might survive the sky falling. Wayne is joined on “Famous” by his daughter, Reginae Carter, resulting in the LP’s greatest moment of self-analysis, with Wayne picking apart what fame has made out of him. It’s a rare point where it feels like the mirror is turned directly on the speaker. But he fails to delve any further. The record could have been his chance to embrace the role of someone who wishes to pass wisdom down to the next generation. Ulti- mately, Tha Carter V sounds like someone chasing after his own glory days. B–

Edited By | CLARISSA CRUZ @CLARISSANYC1

MY BOOKS, MY LIFE THE BEAN TREES (1988) ANIMAL DREAMS (1990) THE POISONWOOD Kingsolver launched her “My first novel was about BIBLE (1998) career with a coming-of- running away from Kingsolver’s most age novel, in which home; my second one famous novel, about BARBARA a missionary family who twentysomething Taylor was about going back,” Greer leaves Kentucky— Kingsolver says of this relocates to the Congo where Kingsolver grew tale, which centers on in the ’50s, reflects the up—before settling in an Codi, a young woman year she spent living in Oklahoma town. The who returns to her rural the region as a child. KINGSOLVER Bean Trees introduced Arizona hometown. The She interprets the bru- Kingsolver’s signature book positions the small tal true story of geno- The best-selling novelist and activist ability to tell prescient community against a cide and colonization— takes a look back at her most American stories by mining company—a for which she realized memorable works, including her latest, looking inward; in this microcosm for a grander her own country was the Trump-era-set Unsheltered. case, the theme was the narrative about corpora- complicit—“through BY DAVID CANFIELD search for a community. tions squeezing people’s the eyes of a family.” While relatively small- livelihood. Codi soon What results is a searing scale, the experience of leads the fight to save exploration of American writing Trees was forma- the town. Kingsolver identity and an indica- tive. “[Taylor] was from drew on her experience tion of Kingsolver’s liter- the place I knew,” King- as a journalist here: ary evolution. Where solver says. “Suddenly “I spent hundreds of before she mirrored her I could write with a new hours driving to these own life, here she took a kind of authenticity. little dusty mining towns, closer, critical look and I learned that my place interviewing women wrote what she saw— in the world had worth.” who faced down armies.” no matter how ugly.

THE 13-WORD SYNOPSIS > Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks Opposites attract, have connection like no other. But, obligations. Let the pining begin!

98 EW.COM OCTOBER 19/26, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY KATE COPELAND BETWEEN Ramblin’ Man Johnny Depp told British GQ that he’s written THE 300 pages of a book “not written in any kind of linear form... LINES like the unplanned telling of a story around the campfire.” Memory Lane Blake Crouch’s new novel, Recursion, due in June 2019, will be adapted into a Netflix film and TV universe by SCREEN TIME Shonda Rhimes and Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes). Attention, Hollywood! We’re scouting out the books ripe for adaptation so you don’t have to. BY DAVID CANFIELD

FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

THE BOOK | Contreras’ debut novel imagines Colombia at the height of Pablo Escobar’s reign, and depicts the friendship between 7-year-old Chula, born into wealth, and Petrona, a teenager hired to work for Petrona’s family. Their bond contrasts with the danger lurking just outside their front door.

WHY IT SHOULD BE A MOVIE | THE LACUNA (2009) FLIGHT BEHAVIOR (2012) UNSHELTERED (2018) Contreras draws out the Chula- “What does it mean to be The book spawned Kingsolver describes Petrona bond intimately, but she also an American?” This com- from—where else?— her latest as a direct has a real feel for suspense as things plicated question drives Kingsolver’s interactions response to the Trump turn dangerous. Plus: Colombia is so The Lacuna, a period with her community. It’s era: “It’s about how vividly described, it’s begging to be piece ahead of its time. set in deep Appalachia, people behave when it realized in gorgeous colors on screen. “I wanted to write about where the author and seems like the world is patriotism—and how it her husband had moved coming to an end.” The THE DREAM TEAM | Rising star

Y IMAGES can get weaponized,” full-time. “Nobody at book moves between Isabela Moner (Dora the Explorer) Kingsolver says. The the time was writing two timelines—the is our choice as the wise Petrona. novel follows a man who about [global warming],” present and post–Civil This is also a chance for Sofia Vergara lives between Mexico she explains. “And it was War—in one house in a to prove her dramatic chops as and the U.S., only to fall dificult for me to talk small New Jersey town. Chula’s vibrant but troubled mother. under suspicion by anti- about with my neigh- If The Lacuna and Communist forces when bors.” She mined that Flight Behavior proved he develops as a writer. tension in the story of a Kingsolver’s canny Kingsolver was inspired woman “thrust into a foresight, one might by the post-9/11 climate, culture shock,” faced hope Unsheltered does when dissent was often with clear evidence of the same. Why? silenced. “This is a much severe climate change “I wanted to write a bigger canvas than just in her own backyard. nuanced account of a family—it’s nations,” “She has to remain where how we got into this she says. “It’s substan- she is—belong to the crisis and how we tially more relevant to community she belongs might come out of it,” this moment than I ever to—but starts changing she says. No spoilers,

MONER: VIVIEN KILLILEA/GETTY IMAGES; VERGARA:EMMA MCINTYRE/GETT imagined it could be.” some of her beliefs.” but: We survive. Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, and Sean Bean take aim Books in The Lord of the Rings

Heavy 5 THINGSYOU DIDN’T KNOW BY Kiese Laymon ABOUTTHELORDOFTHERINGS PAGES 241 | GENRE Memoir Ian Nathan’s new book, Anything You Can Imagine, REVIEW BY David Canfield @davidcanfield97 recounts the epic fantasy’s journey from page to screen— and reveals some Ring-level secrets. BY CHRISTIAN HOLUB

HEAVY LIVES UP TO ITS NAME. 1 a three-day canoe trip 4 With extraordinary craft and down the Whanganui PETER JACKSON ONE OF THE MOST pain, Kiese Laymon’s stark mem- FEARED FOR VIGGO River with only J.R.R. FAMOUS LINES IN oir chronicles one man’s traumatic journey MORTENSEN’S LIFE Tolkien’s book for com- THE SERIES ALMOST pany. And the excursion DIDN’T HAPPEN into adulthood. This is a story about abuse, The Black Gate of Mordor didn’t end well. “Soaked broken promises, wounds that never heal— was filmed in a part of and short on food, [Serkis] Bean’s Boromir declaring New Zealand’s Rangipo “one does not simply walk about growing up a black man in America. had to be rescued by Desert covered in unex- three outwardly bound into Mordor” was a last- Laymon (Long Division) writes what ploded artillery shells. Wellington councilors,” minute script revision, feels like a life’s work here, calling to mind The country’s army set up Nathan writes. “a passage of dialogue a safe area for filming, but scribbled on a piece of the best of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Mortensen (Aragorn) rode paper and literally bal- 3 Gay. He addresses Heavy to his brilliant but recklessly outside of it. anced on his knee,” “Jackson remembers A STRANDED according to Nathan. damaged mother, and begins by confessing: SEAN BEAN AND waiting for the explosion,” “I did not want to write to you. I wanted to ORLANDO BLOOM Nathan writes. “Having HAD TO SLEEP ON A 5 write a lie…. I wanted to write an American STRANGER’S COUCH found their perfect Ara- THE BEATLES gorn, they were going to memoir.” In second-person prose, devas- Jackson planned to ORIGINALLY WANTED watch him get blown up TO DO A FILM stage a riverside battle tating as he all but begs her to realize how by an unexploded New VERSION OF LOTR near Queenstown, New she hurt him, Laymon reveals their inti- Zealand bomb.” Zealand, but a devastating Jackson wasn’t the first

mate, toxic dynamic—how she demanded storm flooded the site, filmmaker to attempt Tolk- RING THE OF FELLOWSHIP THE RINGS: THE OF LORD academic excellence and beat him each 2 preventing them from ien—back in the ’60s, the time she felt he didn’t give her enough. He GOLLUM (ANDY filming. Cast and crew got Beatles tried to kick-start SERKIS) WAS separated and, stranded their own version. In hom- meditates on the legacy of racial violence in ANTISOCIAL ON AND OFF SCREEN and alone, Bean and age to this (and Jackson’s his poor Mississippi hometown; he conveys Bloom happened upon an general love of the band), his agony, living through obesity and eating Unlike the Fellowship isolated cottage inhabited Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, actors, who got matching by an old lady. She let the Dominic Monaghan, and disorders, self-delusions and depression. tattoos to celebrate their actors crash at her place Billy Boyd gave the direc- Heavy is raw but controlled: a refined, filming experience, Serkis for four days until helicop- tor a birthday gift: a photo warm, generously poetic literary work. Lay- mostly flew solo during ters could rescue them. featuring the foursome production. In order to get dressed in hobbit cos- mon elicits tears through crushing honesty. into Gollum’s solitary tumes, but posed as John, : PIERRE VINET Just reading Heavy hurts. Imagine living it. A– headspace, the actor took Paul, George, and Ringo.

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Little Women Everywhere Louisa May Alcott’s beloved children’s tale may be 150 years old, but the story’s feminist themes couldn’t be more relevant—and Hollywood is adapting accordingly. BY DAVID CANFIELD

IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT, fall out of favor with some more than a century after regularity,” Little, Brown’s publication, a book reenters publisher, Reagan Arthur, the culture with relevance says. Not Little Women. and force. Yet Little The book’s lasting Women is doing just that. appeal stems from, for Or perhaps—rarer still— many, its feminist state- it never really went away. ment: that “there are difer- As Louisa May Alcott’s ent models for how to be a classic celebrates its 150th woman in the world,” as anniversary, the flurry of Carina Guiterman, editor new adaptations that are of a new anniversary edi- surfacing serves as a tion, puts it. Novelist J. reminder of its influence. Courtney Sullivan (The A modern retelling of Engagements) wrote the Little Women premiered 150th edition’s foreword at the end of September; and says she grew up read- another, directed by Greta ing Little Women. “The Gerwig (Lady Bird)—and most enduring novels are starring Emma Watson, the ones that you can read Timothée Chalamet, and again and again, and each Meryl Streep—will be time take something difer- released in 2019. A BBC ent away,” she says. “My miniseries aired last year; a mom gave me the book graphic novel, reimagining when I was in fifth grade. the characters as diverse, Anditbelongedtoher debuted online in March. aunt when she was little.” (It’ll be published in hard- While Little Women has cover in February 2019.) meant so much to genera- VITEUR LAURENT WATSON: Little Women, which tions of families, it also traces the lives of the speaks sharply to this March sisters against the moment. “It’s about put- backdrop of the American ting goodness into a very Civil War, has never gone troubled world,” Sullivan

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