Tuesday, April 12, 2022

China removes references to Dumbledore’s gay relationship in ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’

When Jude Law’s young Albus Dumbledore made his debut in the second Fantastic Beasts movie, Harry Potter fans were furious that his romantic past with Gellert Grindelwald (then played by Johnny Depp) was only vaguely alluded to. The good news is that the incoming third installment, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, is not so coy about it and explicitly addresses the teenage love affair that Albus shared with the dark wizard (now played by Mads Mikkelsen).

The bad news is that evidence of the pair’s relationship is already being edited out of the film internationally. According to News.com.au (via Variety), some key dialogue has been removed from Fantastic Beasts 3‘s release in China. Specifically, two lines have been excised from the movie, reducing it by just six seconds. Those six seconds are pretty key to understanding the nature of Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s personal history, however.



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