Yates went on to say that the character of Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Grimes of Grindelwald will be a far different figure as a young man than he was as the elderly statesman who trained Harry Potter.
The sequel Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald will not “explicitly” reference Albus Dumbledore’s sexuality.
So says director David Yates, who also helmed 2016’s Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, as well as four of the eight films based upon the Harry Potter book series.
He was always very clever, but we’ll see him at what I think was the formative period of his life.