The most tragic British loss in recent times is of course the passing of esteemed actor Alan Rickman. Hans Gruber to some Professor Snape to others the wicked supervillain from Love Actually to all: He was a titan onscreen. And quite the little gossip hound off screen. Madly Deeply The Diaries of Alan Rickman a posthumous compilation of Rickman diaries will be released by U.K. publisher Canongate on October 4. Rickman began writing in 1992 amounting to 26 volumes up to his death in 2016. Vulture has rounded up excerpts of Rickman being especially charming, opinionated and candid in his writing. Below tidbits we learned from the non-Horcrux diary of Alan Rickman.
On August 23 2000 Rickman accepted his role in the first Harry Potter film. The next day he writes that he was feeling a bit nothing about HP which really disturbs me.
He loved Prisoner of Azkaban, though.
The day got off to a fabulous start with the screen guillotining on to my head a sudden swift blackout followed by day long melancholy he writes on July 30 2003. Alfonso Cuarón director was quietly ballistic with me. I love him too much to let it last too long so I wailed offset and we sorted it out.
He was pals with Wormtail for years.
We should all be so lucky to walk into a party and have this exact initial reaction at least once in our lives Tim Spall thank God.
Helena Bonham Carter has a middle-school boy’s sense of humor.
On March 10 2008 Rickman writes The line take out your wand reduces Helena Bonham Carter to helpless mirth and will be a bit of a Waterloo come Thursday.
Speaking of Helena Bonham Carter, Rickman was kind of a Tim Burton stan.
He calls the 2008 BAFTAs meaningless because they did not nominate Sweeney Todd. Then he thinks the Alice in Wonderland remake was absolutely ravishing strange and deep and complex and beautiful.
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