Fantastic Beasts 3's New Witch Based Her Magic on Venus & Serena Williams
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore star Jessica Williams reveals that she based the magic of her character Eulalie «Lally» Hicks on tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. Best known for her work on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as one of the hilarious correspondents, Williams the actress has gone on to have a career in television and film, appearing in projects like the comedy hit Booksmart and the romance series Love Life. Now with Fantastic Beasts 3, she looks to jump into a major Hollywood franchise.
Williams stars as Lally in this week's Fantastic Beasts 3, reprising the small role she had in 2018's The Crimes of Grindelwald,where she was relegated to a photograph in a book. Lally is a Charms professor at the North American wizarding school Ilvermorny. She joins magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), No-Maj Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), Newt's brother Theseus (Callum Turner), and Harry Potter fan favorite Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) in their quest to stop the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) from starting a war against Muggles. Fantastic Beasts 3 is the midpoint for the Harry Potter prequel series, with two more movies potentially on tap.
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Williams recently sat down for an interview with Collider and revealed that, when filming Fantastic Beasts 3, she based Lally's magic on Venus and Serena. Williams explained that the tennis icons were excellent models for her magic skills in The Secrets of Dumbledore due to their strength. Read what the comedian had to say below.
«I’m so excited about my character. I think she’s really strong and really capable. She’s really good at defensive magic and she has some really cool,
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