"I think the world is ready for a gay icon for boys"

same Jude Law he becomes nervous, especially when he comes to be selected for the role of Albus Dumbledore in "Fantastic Animals: The Grindelwald Crimes"and is about to meet J.K. Rowling. "She makes great efforts to make you feel comfortable when you know that you are in the presence of someone very extraordinary," she told the author. "Harry Potter" and "Fantastic animals".

She never sat down while the layers of Dumbledore, the accomplished wizard and finally director of Hogwarts, the character that Rowling has often said that he speaks for her; I walked and talked as if I had been forced by a strange force for nearly two and a half hours. In shoes with very high heels.

"It was like a purge, like a confession, it was as if she lived there," says Law laughing. In the role of Dumbledore in his early years, Law carries the weight of a literary character who was brought to life, Richard Harris and Michael Gambon, in Harry Potter's films.. It also reveals a decisive moment for Dumbledore: a Romantic bond with his dark counterpart, Gellert Grindelwaldrepresented by Johnny Depp. Although Rowling exposed Dumbledore to his fans in 2007, Harry Potter's books and films were silent about his baduality. Earlier this year, the director David Yates He fanned the fury when he said that Dumbledore would not be "explicitly" gay in this second film about the five planned by the franchise.

"He did not say that," Law said. "Every time I asked, the answer was," Yes, that's it. "In my mind, that's it." (Yates later said that he had filmed two scenes "very sensual").

Next month, Law will represent the manager of a pop star (Natalie Portman) in "Vox Lux". In March, it will be prepared, even if in the meantime, it keeps the secret, as Walter Lawson, the mentor of the superhero titled Brie Larson in "Captain Marvel"and soon will start filming "The new pope" of HBO, the sequel to "The Young Pope", in which he represented the first American pontiff.

A rainy morning in New York, sipping hot lemon water St. Regis, Law, who resides in London, talked about what he's putting on Dumbledore's skin, the future with Depp in "Fantastic Animals" and the ambiguous blessing of his physical appearance.

-So Dumbledore. Did they have in mind for the role since the beginning?

-No, I do not think so. I knew that they were trying to reinvigorate this character. Then I took the lead and, very exactly, they took it very seriously. They wanted to be sure they had chosen the right person, and I went there, and with desire, I acted in front of the camera so that they could see me. I wanted to audition the role the way they wanted, to make sense: "Can I play this beloved role for millions of people?"

– What vision has J.K. Rowling?

-I returned to the character's childhood and how this emotion affected this young man. One of the key relationships we talked about, of course, was Gellert Grindelwald's, and the way it was formative in that it was intense, intimate, and pbadionate. It was the first time Dumbledore found the last of his shoes, and for some reason that I can not divulge, they let this case fall. And he made them move in opposite directions and leave a wound between them, which is still open 25 years later.

-What did David Yates mean by saying that Dumbledore is not "explicitly" gay?

Let's say it: this film does not deal with homobaduality, its baduality does not define it either. Although this relationship is surely a determinant of who he is and what he is talking about. I do not believe either that someone who has given his heart or soul to many people. The consequences of their relationship left him upset and he poured his heart into the ice, to be honest, and no one had thawed it.

– Is the world ready for a gay icon for boys?

-I think the world is ready for this, and if it is not, it should be well prepared.

– Will Johnny Depp make the next movie? (Amber Heard, the ex-wife of Depp, accused him of physical abuse, an accusation that he denies).

-I think so.

– Will there be a romance?

-I do not know.

-In "Vox Lux" by Brady Corbet, you are the depressing manager of Celeste, a survivor of a school mbadacre that is turning into a pop star.

– I saw Brady's first film, "The Childhood of a Leader", and I was so impressed by the ambition and daring. Then he sent me the script. For me, it's like the evil sister of "A star is born". In the end, you realize that both have survived together and it is rare that the addict and the reseller.

-Melest reminded me of Parkland, Florida, students both celebrated and slandered.

-It has something that unfortunately becomes a monthly occurrence and is used as a starting point for a journey in our relationship with the media, with celebrity, with music, with culture. You follow a survivor and the idea that surviving, or the celebrity that is attributed to you, is a curse. I would like to think that the victims of these horrible scenarios would say, "God be praised, someone really puts the subject in the clear."

-Your project with Woody Allen, "A Rainy Day in New York," was boxed by Amazon in the middle of the # MeToo movement. How do you feel when you see that your job is getting dusty?

-It is a terrible shame. I would love to see him. People have really worked a lot and have invested a lot in this project, of course, that includes me.

-After the child abuse allegations against Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow resurfaced, some of the cast walked away from him and donated their wages or said that she would never work again with him. You did not do it. (Allen denied the charges)

-I did not really want to involve me, to be honest. I did not feel that it was up to me to comment and it is a very delicate situation. I felt that enough had been said about the subject. It's a private matter. As for reworking with Allen, I do not know. I should think about it very carefully.

– The # MeToo movement has led you to rethink the roles you have chosen?

– You must always see the impact of a role and its treatment. We had an interesting conversation on this topic in "El Nido" (a psychological drama to come on a business man and his family), about how my character and other people around him were treating women in office. It was in 1986, and people were arguing, "Are we slapping our bad or are we using pejorative words?" And it looked like this: "For a moment, we are not in the 80s, we are doing this film now, so yes, you can include that you insist on saying," We were wrong. "But otherwise, that was not the case. no sense to continue with the myth. "

An actor clbadified in "cute" roles

– Many articles have been written about your beauty. Is it a blessing or a curse?

– Being actor by type as an actor, it's horrible because you want to make people guess. Because of this, being the boy of another or the beautiful girl clearly worries me because you think: what will happen when my hair falls, as it actually happens, and that They are starting to age? The good news is that I certainly felt that way when I was 40, I saw more opportunities to play any role or leave my comfort zone.

-The appearance is weird, is not it?

-I do not know, I think that there is still a lot to say. That said, I'm 45 years old. If people say, "You are terribly handsome," then I would say, "I'm terribly happy to hear it."