Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Especially of women I have played opposite – and as I look around – Juliet [Stevenson], Fiona [Shaw], Paola [Dionisotti], Harriet [Walter], Saskia [Reeves], Deborah [Warner], Beatie [Edney], Zoë [Wanamaker], Gillian [Barge], Anna [Massey] – it is a source of pride. He did not construct this book; these are entries from his private journals spanning the years 1993 to 2015, the time of his passing.

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Labour party hopeless, Gordon won’t take decisions, Mandelson (of course), mistrust of Miliband, grudging respect (I think) for Cameron’s cleverness. While the years impart structure, a contrapuntal rhythm comes with the life cycle of every fresh project. I guess it didn’t reveal anything juicy or scandalous or, perhaps, it was thought that those parts were taken out. In the bar backstage, Gwyneth Paltrow introduced herself (more beautiful off screen) and then [we] met the group in the inner sanctum with Richard Curtis.The snapshots would be of milling about, people looking suddenly older, some in hats and palaver, men in red uniforms holding pikestaffs (the ones in glasses letting the side down). From 1972, Alan Rickman kept a pocket diary in which he noted appointments, anniversaries, opening nights and addresses. The title of the film was “Cello” through the completion of the shooting as sort of a pun: “cello” as the instrument and “cielo” for heaven.

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The breadth of work and his dedication to the art of acting, endless social occasions, constant travel and bouts of ill health and the numerous people he knew is exhausting to read. Horton in fact served as a Labour councillor and Rickman put his politics front and centre when in 2005 he collaborated with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Kath Viner, on My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play about the American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. That leaves 2–3,000 inside all staring at me since Neil [Jordan] comes to announce that the speech is first. I’m biased because, as I said before, I fell madly, deeply in love with Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon. That was the image that Alan Rickman projected as an actor, in everything from T ruly, Madly, Deeply to the Harry Potter films, said Dominic Maxwell in The Times.I imagine he would prefer to be remembered for his theatre work, though the majority of that took place in London and far from the world's maddening crowds. 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. Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. I like Russell, but ohmigod I hate the faux-naif thing that’s inevitable when quirk meets ambition (see Gervais, R). It isn’t thought through so time is wasted … Which means that acting is out the window … I end the day feeling humiliated and angry – but I can’t show it.

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I spoke to him once at a party sometime in the 1990s, a burst of gush about how much I admired him and he took the praise with the slow-blinking cool of one who was used to it.Plus Maggie’s stories of the Ladies in Lavender premiere: “Miriam Margolyes looked like a Sherman tank in sequins. Sandy Powell [costume designer] has made Dev a fetching coat and bonnet for his Lincoln prison escape.