【Dear Utol (2025): Doctor, Doctor I'm Sick Episode 41】

Fantastic Beastsstar Jude Law dropped some knowledge about his role as young Albus Dumbledore in the Beastssequel,Dear Utol (2025): Doctor, Doctor I'm Sick Episode 41 The Crimes of Grindlewald.

Namely, that Dumbledore will not share any scenes with the titular Gellert Grindlewald, as he did not film any material opposite Grindlewald actor Johnny Depp, according to an interview with EW,

In the interview, Law also said that he had not yet met Depp on the Fantastic Beastsproject but mentioned that at this point in the story, Grindlewald and Dumbledore have not seen each other for many years, meaning fans will have to wait for the third movie or beyond for those characters to share the screen.

The fact that Dumbledore and Grindlewald don't see each other at all in The Crimes of Grindlewaldalso ties into another infamous Fantastic Beastsinterview, where director David Yates said that Dumbledore's sexuality as a gay wizard will "not explicitly" be explored in the second movie.

Many viewed this as erasing Dumbledore's canonically gay identity, which has never been explored in the Harry Potter books or movies, but may have alluded to this new information — that Dumbledore doesn't actually interact with his (commonly speculated) former lover Grindlewald at this point in the story.

This is all to say that everyone on "LGBTQ Representation in Harry Potter"–watch is going to have to wait another two years minimum before Dumbledore's sexuality, which J.K. Rowling confirmed eleven actual years ago, gets its day in the visual canon sun.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewaldcomes out on November 16th. Dumbledore doesn't.