Harry Potter Star Shares His Heartwarming Memories of Alan Rickman
Harry Potter star Timothy Spall has shared some of his heart-warming memories of working with the late Alan Rickman. After eight films based on author J.K. Rowling’s best-selling boy wizard series, the entire franchise had utilized the talents of a huge number of beloved and respected actors. As one of the series’ key characters, Rickman played Professor Severus Snape to perfection, uncannily balancing the character’s likeable and detestable traits.
Snape spent much of the series as something of a red herring, intentionally making both readers and audiences feel that he was a despicable person with no redeeming characteristics. But as the series soon revealed, Snape’s perceived wickedness was an act – a brilliant covert operation that he willingly entered into in collaboration with Hogwarts’ headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. In order to pull off a character as complex and surprising as this, Snape’s casting had to be flawless and few could argue that this was achieved by casting Rickman. Throughout his career, Rickman, whose unexpected death shocked the world in 2016, was often cast in villainous roles. No one can forget his turn as Hans Gruber in Die Hard or the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But simply because he had a knack for portraying unscrupulous characters certainly didn’t mean that was who he actually was.
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In a recent interview with Looper, Rickman’s Harry Potter co-star, Timothy Spall, had nothing but heart-warming praise for the man who will forever be known as Severus Snape. With over 40 years of film, television and stage experience, Spall is a show business legend, starring in six of the eight Potter films
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