just wanted to procrastinate by saying that the look newt gives to tina when she clearly says that she read his book even if he (apparently) never brought her a copy is everything and i think about it at least once a day
an under-appreciated newtina moment: when tina says to newt “well sit down mr. scamander…i’m not gonna poison you.” in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
i think this is the first moment where we see tina starting to be more sympathetic with newt, as well as noticing that he is visibly uncomfortable and anxious in this new environment. she realizes that even though newt -in her mind- is a criminal, the hostility directed towards him caused him to feel that way and thus decides to ease the tension by telling him straight out (in the form of an exaggerated play of words) that she has no intentions of hurting him and even going so far as to offering dinner and a place to stay. to me that is beautiful…in its own newtina way.
Important question: How long after the fact did Newt realize that when he was pretending to fall asleep at the Goldstein’s apartment, he was in Tina’s bed?
“Colleen did try to get me into a dress, but I felt pretty strongly that just because Tina has grown more confident doesn’t mean that she’s become a different person. And I didn’t want to communicate some kind of misleading idea that just because she has some tomboy qualities that they are in any way linked to insecurity. That’s just the way she likes to dress and it works for her…It’s so neurotic and weird and nerdy all the things that go into the decisions we make for how to express character, but in the first film, I had imagined that she had had some kind of long braid her whole life and then the fashion changed and maybe Queenie was bugging her to get with the program and so she took a big pair of kitchen scissors and just snipped the braid off. That’s why it was sort of unattractive and blunt and simple, and she didn’t quite know how to style it to the time. So that was sort of what I was after in the first one. I was thinking a lot about the romance with Newt and how that part of her life was awakened by him. She hadn’t ever had any time for romance and didn’t really relate to herself as someone who could have a romantic partner. So a kind of new awareness has come to her, a kind of maturity I suppose that she didn’t have before, and an awareness maybe of herself as something that could be attractive to someone else. So I just thought that the idea that she would maybe for the first time in her life actually go in to a hairdresser’s seemed like a good thing for this film. That she’s taking some kind of pleasure in herself in a way that she never had before.”