Then, as it goes along, you put stretch in certain places that you can't see.

'I used the same ideas and textures, but I reshaped the original costumes. 'I was like, 'Oh my God, I have to rethink how to make this costume work on somebody that's going to be pregnant for three months while we're filming?!'' she says of costuming Alison Sudol, who plays Queenie, and Victoria Yeates, who plays Bunty. (She won the Oscar for Best Costume Design in 2017 with the first film, among 12 total nomination and four wins.) This installment takes Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and the gang from Bhutan to Berlin, with a stopover in Hogwarts, requiring a whole new world of magical costumes.Īlthough filming was original slated for early 2020, the production was postponed until later that year due to the pandemic, resulting in a number of shutdown-related issues but one in particular that was unique to Atwood: 'When I came back into it after COVID, two of my actors were pregnant!' she laughs. 'I've done a couple of sheaths on the side of their pants, like a holster sort of setup, but that's mainly for bad guys.'įantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore marks Atwood's third outing in the Wizarding World. 'A lot of times it's on the inside of the sleeve or sometimes it's hidden in the inside pocket of their trousers,' Atwood says. 'Sometimes you see it in the movie and sometimes you don't.' 'We figure out where their wand pockets are, where they hide their wands and how they get them out,' she tells A.frame. Legendary costume designer Colleen Atwood begins her design work on the Fantastic Beasts films with an appropriately magical flight of fancy.

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