Ezra Miller

- Ryan Gajewski

“It’s funny when an interview starts and you suddenly realize you’re talking about stuff you’ve never talked about with anyone,” Ezra Miller tells me. The Hollywood It boy, who lately has been busy blurring the boundaries of masculinity in men’s magazines (including this one) with his enthusiasm for gender-bending, has just shared with me his first-ever sex dream, a memory from the age of four of a witch imprisoning him on a waterspout. “It was tantalizing and delightful,” he says. He points out how appropriate that dream now is, given his role as Credence Barebone in the bankable Fantastic Beasts films, a big-budget franchise that is certainly cinema’s witchiest and also its queerest, thanks to its buzzy exploration of two wizards’ gay romance. The 26-year-old New Jersey–born actor and musician, who earned his cred in 2011’s