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Ask Jude Law, “What’s the hardest part of playing a young Albus Dumbledore?” and he might reply, “Keeping secrets.”

The 45-year-old, two-time Oscar nominee joins J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world as an early version of the character — who becomes the future headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books — in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (out this Friday), and he already knows what’s in store for his dashing hero over the course of three planned sequels.

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“I know where he’s going. So I’ve got this aim in my mind and I get to take you closer and closer to the Dumbledore we know and love from the Potter world and show how he ended up being that man,” Law says down the line from Los Angeles.

Co-star Eddie Redmayne was enthused to be working alongside Law as he reinterpreted the character.

“I’ve known Jude for many years, so I was incredibly excited that he’d been cast — purely on a selfish level because I was getting to work with a mate,” he says in a separate interview. “But when he showed up on set, there was a look, one glance, where we meet on the bridge that I think encapsulates the gravitas and whimsy and mercurial quality that we’ve all known and loved in Dumbledore.”