Ezra Miller argues Fantastic Beasts are non-binary people as he challenges their gender

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Ezra Miller attending the Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald UK premiere held at Leicester Square, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday November 13, 2018. See PA story SHOWBIZ Grindelwald. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire.

Ezra will challenge you to prove the gender of mythological beasts (Picture: PA Wire)

Ezra Miller has a theory about Fantastic Beasts that might have been staring us in the face the whole time.

The 26-year-old reprises his role as Credence in Harry Potter sequel The Crimes of Grindelwald and has clearly given a lot of thought as to whether the beasts are non-binary, which he argues is a definite.

Addressing the mystery around the gender of the beasts, Ezra told the Gay Times: Weve got them. If you look at Fantastic Beasts, a lot of those beasts are non-binary. Like a Lethifold.

Whats the gender of a Lethifold? I challenge you that! In terms of a human character… yeah, that would be amazing.

Youve got us there, Ez.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is out this month (Picture: Warner Bros.)

Exploring the other wonders and mysteries of mythology, the actor continued: Theres so much in so many mythologies like the metamorphmagus – you start to think about, like, transfiguration, transmutation.

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A lot of the esoteric practices have really old understandings of queerness – the four genders in Navajo, or the two-spirit in Lakota society, all of this stuff.

He added: I feel like a lot of the time the LGBTQIA++ community we think a lot about what were doing as brand new, which is true in this time. But then its so comforting to remember that were also bringing back the wisdom of the ancients.

Johnny Depp (left to right), Claudia Kim, Jude Law, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner, Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Eddie Redmayne, William Nadylam, Dan Fogler and J.K. Rowling attending the Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald UK premiere held at Leicester Square, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday November 13, 2018. See PA story SHOWBIZ Grindelwald. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire.

The Fantastic Beasts premiere reached London this week (Picture: PA Wire)

Ezra recently addressed Dumbledores sexuality in the second installment of Fantastic Beasts and told The Hollywood Reporter that the professors queerness is blatant in The Crimes of Grindelwald.

The actor said: For me, personally, I find Dumbledores queerness extremely explicit in this film. I mean, all around.

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He sees Grindelwald, his young lover whos the love of his life; he sees him in the Mirror of Erised. What does the Mirror of Erised show you? Nothing more than the most desperate desire of your heart.

If thats not explicitly gay, I dont know what is.

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