Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Bonnie read the introduction penned by Emma Thompson, Rickman’s long-time friend and frequent co-star. It’s possible to go through this book, as if with a metal detector, and retrieve shreds of tabloid coin .

An active supporter of the Labour Party, Rickman had a social conscience and had a serious side to his nature. The star's thoughts reveal a man unwilling to suffer fools or mince his words - most of the time Alan Rickman's voice was a purr, but it masked sharp claws .He knows everyone, yet he’s pretty normal underneath, but overall, he’s an actor’s actor and director who strives to do the best work always. g., Rickman’s relationship with his partner, Rima Horton, whom he met as a teenager and didn’t marry until 2012. Marcus Rashford 'went on a 12-hour tequila bender in Belfast' as he was spotted in nightclub last week. Instantly recognisable for the commanding air of dignity and knowing wit he brought to roles including Severus Snape and Hans Gruber.

The late nights, bad meals at odd hours, room-service snacks, hang-overs and streaming colds; the jet lag, mounds of unopened mail, phones ringing incessantly; the ailing back and neck, stomach upsets, sweating, swellings, skin problems, vision and hearing issues: when cancer comes it is no surprise. K. Rowling “nervously” gave him towards the beginning of the series for helping him get through the series, before she had finished writing the books. He is the author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark and is the series editor of Spark's collected novels. Would he want the world to know how brilliant yet self-absorbed he found Kate Winslet when he directed her in the film A Little Chaos .Per The AV Club, Rickman tried to quit after the 2002's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets—“Reiterating no more HP. Too often, all we present is an attempted repeat of a hazy memory of the once we thought we almost made it. Quite frankly, he's such a loyal friend and partner, more fun loving than I ever realised, dealt with more tragedy than I knew and saw more of the world than can ever be put into a diary.

In the manner that it takes a large ground crew to put a single fighter pilot in the air, it takes a large company of humans to move a famous actor through his days: makeup and clothing and sets and black cars and interview requests and tickets and reservations and all the rest. Rickman studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, the Royal College of Art, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Running from 1993 to his death in 2016, the diaries provide singular insight into Rickman's public and private life. Following the second film in 2002, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rickman tried to quit again.Indeed, Rickman says he finds the obligations of friendship a ‘chore’ and is ‘exhausted’ by listening to people’s problems. Rickman's diaries reveal the frenetic lifestyle and frequent fretting of an actor at the height of his fame . The only reason I continued reading this book past the first chapter was the subject; Maureen Paton's writing style simply isn't for me. He rarely opines on these characters, merely listing the people and how the time was spent - so you may think, and be forgiven for doing so, what's the bloody point of all of this? Juliet Stevenson told me it was like acting opposite a sponge, as Rickman sucked up every available drop of energy in a ten-mile radius.

Madly, Deeply is a subtle piece of business and requires more dedication than one is used to expending on content from a posthumous diary. Madly, Deeply also includes a foreword by Emma Thompson and a selection of Rickman's early diaries, dating from 1974 to 1982, when his acting life first began. Alan Rickman is the most powerful and sexiest character actor to emerge from Britain in the last decade.I would hope he'd know me better and feel like he's reading about an old friend too as well as a father. To anyone planning on reading these diaries, I would strongly advise you keep Rickman’s IMDb and Wikipedia pages open on your laptop, plus Google to hand .