Why Grindelwald Looks So Different In Fantastic Beasts 3 (Not Just Recast)
After watching Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore — which is now streaming on HBO Max — audiences immediately noticed how different Grindelwald looks from the previous films. Fantastic Beasts 3 showed a very new Gellert Grindelwald in the form of Mads Mikkelsen, taking over for Johnny Depp. Followers of the Harry Potter spinoff franchise are likely already aware of the controversy surrounding Depp's firing from the Fantastic Beasts series and replacement by Mikkelsen, but the difference in appearance goes further than a simple recasting.
As portrayed by Depp in the first two films, Grindelwald is depicted with a shock of white hair that stood on end, a trim mustache, and different colored eyes — one pale blue and the other dark brown. The villain spends a majority of the first film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in magically transfigured disguise as Percival Graves, played in this form by Colin Farrell. The wizard-supremacist remains in his true form during Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as he gathers followers to help him gain power over the Muggle world. Mikkelsen takes over for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, with a noticeably different appearance. The white hair is traded for the actor's natural color, and the heterochromia is much less pronounced, though still a part of the character.
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Mikkelsen's version of the character, as seen in Fantastic Beasts 3, doesn't seem to retain any of the striking physical features seen in the previous films. The Hannibal actor's take on Grindelwald's look is toned back, with his only truly defining feature being a streak of white hair over his forehead. Depp and Mikkelsen already look
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