Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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I’m sure others have their own moments and feelings as he played to perfection the “Bad Guy” in other films. Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) was an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English film, television and stage actor. However, soon we find out that although he’s a very real presence in Nina’s life and she still has his cello, Jamie has died. There is much that doesn’t really matter, or is not entirely clear (which, again, emphasises the need for a clearer editorial process), but the entries are generally brief, and it is fascinating to get a glimpse inside this man’s head.

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He has no illusions about his own repeat role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter franchise, but it keeps the money rolling in and introduces him to a new generation of fans. Additionally, Minghella hired a “stunt” cellist, Caroline Dale, to create the close-ups of his left hand. When Barack Obama is elected, Rickman is thrilled that “52 per cent of the US had a supreme act of imagination”. That’s both a weakness, in that there are no real set-pieces or themes, and a strength, in that he never seems to be writing for effect. At the end of the film, Nina puts Jamie’s cello into its case and closes the door on it to go out and meet her new boyfriend.Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? Presumably the most violating indiscretions have been culled as a million words were boiled down to about 150,000. Not because of anything contained within, but because there's hundreds of journal entries where he refers to people that he knew personally (with no context), and sometimes just initials of people. we’re on the way to the Curzon Mayfair for Sense and Sensibility premiere which is a good distraction from the birthday … Old friends in new frocks, line-up for Prince Charles (tell him he should have played my part) and in to the film.

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Sardonic, aloof, witty and withering, yet with undercurrents of warmth that could surface when needed. Minghella said he wrote the film for her, and Stevenson is brilliant in the range of emotions she expresses throughout the film, from anguished crying through screaming rage to joyful laughter. From the outside, his life appears an exhausting whirl of rehearsals, film screenings, theatre visits, awards ceremonies, house purchases and mad dashes to catch planes (more than once, he boards a flight and realises he has left half his clothes hanging in the hotel wardrobe). But he loves a great many things too: John Lewis (“a temple to… common sense”) and, most enjoyably, Gogglebox, which he says “makes me love the British”. A torrent of (calm) anti-Boris Johnson abuse falls from my lips, emboldened, no doubt, by my quote in today’s Guardian [“If Boris Johnson gets elected it would be a case of the lunatic having no clue how to run the asylum”].He still tries to maintain his privacy and normal social calendar--even attending a play a couple of hours after receiving the diagnosis and not notifying others of his prognosis for several weeks--and continues to be circumspect in recording the details of his illness in his own personal diary, but the trailing off in his energy is quite palpable and really hard to read. I would have preferred a biography with bits and pieces from his diary, not his soul into the open like this.

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You learn more about the person he was from Emma Thompson's Forward, than the whole of the journals. Forty pages in and you're not there yet; not in the state of mind that will make this material matter.Esto, por supuesto, en compañía de amigos, de Rima, su alma gemela, y de incontables grandes nombres que forjan el universo cinematográfico que conocemos. script to Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Pat O’Connor7 wants to party; but for some strange reason they’re off to Ireland for a week (they only just got here). Great venue … But all these sudden goodbyes to people who have shared the inside of your head, heart, insecurities, triumphs … now the strange absence. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in 1988’s Die Hard: ‘I had never seen a suaver, funnier screen villain and I still haven’t.

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Somewhere in here, finally, the deal is done for HP 7 parts one and two, and people are all carefully left in possession of genitalia. His smarmy cleric Obadiah Slope in the BBC Barchester Chronicles and his vulpine seducer Valmont in the RSC Les Liaisons Dangereuses were early delights, though he was already in his 30s, a late starter. He claims never to have met a curious politician, “one who asks questions rather than makes little speeches”.But he marvels at the charm of “Wax en famille”: “Ruby sits laughing amidst it all – a great advert for Prozac. Freezing water and, strangely enough, very wet; a frogman grabbing my ankles; eyes open; blood on the forehead; staring. Rickman’s writing details the extraordinary and the ordinary in a way that is anecdotal, indiscreet, witty, gossipy and utterly candid. Hidden forces are very strong’: Alan Rickman with Liam Neeson and Aidan Quinn in Michael Collins, 1996. A screen, a platform, an interviewer and thousands screaming and singing, “Snape, Snape, Severus Snape … ” The carpet snakes into Leicester Square for the film at 8pm.