RIP Alan Rickman

[taf2002]

I was surprised that the guy who played Oliver Wood in Harry Potter used so many expletives in his tribute. But it was still a lovely tribute - apparently his experience with Alan was similar to Daniel Radcliff's. They both talked about how Alan mentored them in HP.

 

[IceAlisa]

Fans in Moscow and St. Pertersburg had make shift memorials for Alan Rickman, with wands up like the scene at the end of Movie 6 when Dumbledore died.

https://tvrain.ru/articles/aktsii_pamjati_alana_rikmana-401859/#photo-5289

 

[aftershocks]

Losing so many creative people too soon. Condolences to Rickman's family, friends and acting colleagues. Strange that Rickman and Bowie both died at 69 in the same week, of the same disease.

Charlie Rose interview in which Rickman talks about his voice and actually how difficult it was for him to work on developing it in acting school. He says voice quality is dependent upon individual mouth structure and it was an accident of nature that his mouth's structure provided him with such a resonant quality due to a high roof that is both a blessing and a curse. He had to work harder to project so that sound didn't get lost within his mouth's larger chamber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFXRzP3iD_4

BAFTA interview discussing some of his roles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKLDyIyYfFs

I've never forgotten his performance in the first Die Hard movie. It was his first film and he landed the role very quickly upon coming to Hollywood, and he made of it something quite extraordinary.

I must go look at his films, the old memorable ones, and those I haven't yet seen.

He really was great at playing villains. But, it sounds like, in real life, he was wonderful to those around him:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so6djn

What a beautiful and heartfelt testimonial from Scottish actor Sean Biggerstaff. A testament to how kind and generous-hearted Rickman was -- that's so poignant and inspirational.

I also get a deep sense of the kind of person Rickman was from his friend Emma Thompson's words:
"...his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view... He was the ultimate ally ... and above all things a rare and unique human being. We shall not see his like again."

 

[bardtoob]

I always thought of Alan Rickman as 39ish but I can remember him so far back ...

My favorite lines that her delivered were:

(points to a girl) "You, my room...10:30. You, 10:45. Bring a friend." --Sheriff of Nottingham

Well, everything as the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

"No idea." --Snape

 

[kwanfan1818]

A lovely tribute from Daniel Radcliffe:
http://www.upworthy.com/daniel-radc...ickman-contains-a-lesson-for-all-of-us?c=ufb1

Rickman and Bowie had that generosity in common too in encouraging and listening to younger artists.

 

[aftershocks]

Moving tributes to/ anecdotes about Alan Rickman from Juliet Stevenson (co-star in Truly Madly Deeply) and from Kate Winslet (after receiving a recent Critic's Circle award):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7BsBEbB-Ls "We've lost our King, our leader... Those of us who loved him, don't know how we're going to get along without him."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTIb45EYes "It's a funny time ... to be accepting prizes for things when people as great as [Alan] have left us."

 

[emason]

Thanks for posting. These are lovely (and funny).