Fantastic Beasts 3 Star Defends Crimes of Grindelwald's Queenie Twist
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore star Alison Sudol has defended her character Queenie Goldstein's decision at the end of the second Fantastic Beasts film to join forces with Grindelwald. The Fantastic Beasts series of films began in 2016 as a spin-off of the Harry Potter franchise, focusing on the wizarding world in New York City in the 1920s. Following the magical zoologist Newt Scamander from the spin-off book of the same name, the series is planned to comprise five installments of which The Secrets of Dumbledore will be the third.
Queenie Goldstein is a sweet half-blood witch from New York City and the younger sister of protagonist Tina Goldstein, Newt Scamander's Auror love interest. Queenie works at the Wand Permit Office and is a valuable ally to Newt and Tina for most of the first two films, but she quickly finds herself falling in love with Jacob Kowalski, a 'No-Maj', which is the American term for Muggle. This quickly proves problematic, because the wizarding world is highly prejudiced against these relationships between no-Maj and wizards. At the end of the second film, The Crimes of Grindelwald, Queenie ultimately decides to switch allegiances to Grindelwald under the promise of being able to be with Jacob and to extend that privilege to other such couples. Grindelwald's true motivations, however, are far darker than simply fighting prejudice.
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Sudol defended Queenie in an interview with Digital Spy ahead of the release of the third film in the Fantastic Beasts series. She explained that Queenie's decision has to be seen in the context of the prejudices of the wizarding world in the 1920s. Sudol also teased Queenie's
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