Ezra Miller's Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them Character Revealed

Warner Bros. are clearly expecting big things from Ezra Miller, with the actor set to star in two of their biggest franchises.

We've already seen him as Barry Allen/The Flash in cameos and the Justice League trailer, ahead of his appearing in that movie and then his own solo film, scheduled for 2018. Before both of those, however, we're going to be seeing him in Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, and while the character is still shrouded mystery we do now have a first look at him in the movie (courtesy of EW).

Miller is playing Credence Barebone, adopted son of Samantha Morton's Mary Lou. EW's report states that he "appears withdrawn, extremely shy and far more vulnerable than his two sisters. Credence is defenceless against the abuse that comes in response to the slightest infraction of Mary Lou’s strict rules. But his loneliness also makes him susceptible to the manipulation of Percival Graves (Colin Farrell), who has taken a personal interest in Credence.”

Graves, already seen in the trailers, is an auror and Director of magical Security in the American wizard government, and it's with him that Barebone appears in the image, in a dark alleyway with signs that reference Salem. That's going to be a part of the story, as they're from the New Salem Philanthropic Society – a radical organisation headed up by Credence’s mother, the purpose of which is to expose and kill wizards and witches by bringing about another Salem Witch Trials. Sounds like a fun time for all involved.

Miller himself spoke a little bit about the role and the audition process, although he couldn't say too much about the character:

"Everything’s like CIA-level. If I tell you sh-- about my character, I swear there’s a sniper up on the roof that will take me out. They told me like two little bits of information about the character [when I auditioned] and I just went in and went crazy, and just talked as if I were this person, who I knew nothing about. But it was funny – there actually ended up being a lot of things like what I was imagining. But getting the role was a moment of absolute ecstatic joy and sort of transcendent sense of completion. I was doing some sort of slightly epileptic dance in the street of New York City, dropping to my knees, crying, praising the heavens, with people looking at me like I should be institutionalised.”

So there's still a lot of mystery surrounding Miller's character, although it sounds like he's going to be a wizard adopted into a very anti-wizard family (it makes the Dursleys look positively pro-magic), and it'll be interesting to see just how that turns out in the movie.

Fantastic Beasts will be released November 18.