'Fantastic Beasts 3': Eddie Redmayne says his real-life Wizardry is 'letdown' for his kids

British actor Eddie Redmayne is currently gearing up for upcoming Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore, sequel to 2018 film Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. film series serves as a spiff of popular Harry Potter series also authored by JK Rowling. sequel will see return of several faces from first part including Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol and more. 

Redmayne has reprised his role as Newt Scamander, employee of  Beasts Division of  Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures and part-time magizoologist taking care of his host of magical creatures. While his clever wizardry skills led him to prevent large-scale dam to human world at hands of a dangerous magical creature, Redmayne's skills fail to impress his own kids in real life. 

Fantastic Beasts 3: Eddie Redmayne's kids are unimpressed with his wizardry

During his appearance on  Live with Kelly and Ryan show as reported by People Magazine, 40-year-old actor, who has a son Luke, 4, and daughter Iris, 5, recalled time when he failed to conjure up magic as an impressive as his character Newt Scamander's. He recounted, ''re was a moment this year where I felt like as a d, who played a wizard, I could try and get some brownie points,''

He recalled giving his daughter 'Newt's wand,' ding ''I thought (it) was pretty exciting, and she's like 'Okay, thanks D.' " However, his daughter h different ideas as half an hour later, Redmayne discovered his magical wand covered in tinfoil as he recalled, ''she'd me a little star and me a fairy wand. And she's like, w this is a wand,''

actor also could t impress his toddler son as he said, ''You have that sort of moral dilemma, like do I lie to my child? I find myself stuck in middle,'' After being asked by his son, Redmayne decided to go with his character and said to him, '' 'Yeah I am a wizard' and I did some sort of trick with a coin, one magic trick I could do," However, his son was quick to catch on that magnitude of his far's trick was drastically lesser than in Fantastic Beasts 3 trailer. 

Lastly, Redmayne ded, ''So I think he told his friends at school and y asked me to do some of stuff in trailer and it was a bit of a letdown."

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