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Alan Rickman dies at 69

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Blow Dry is another movie that he starred in that no one seems to know about. It's a great British comedy movie.
 
Is there a new form of cancer that is targeting talented Englishmen?!

Rickman has been one of my favorites since we knew him as Hans Gruber. This is incredibly sad news, I'm just so fucking mad right now. Friends of mine got to meet him when Love Actually was been filmed, was jealous of that for a long time. 🙁

I really feel for his family. The statements I've heard from his friends really brought a tear to me eye.



Fuck you cancer, just fuck you.
 
Oh wow. I never paid attention and realized that he was Hans Gruber. Loved him in Galaxy Quest, Dogma, and as Snape. Of the Harry Potter crew, he was one of the few I didn't feel was dialing it in for the last couple of installments.
 
Saw him on stage a few times. As much as we all loved him on screen, seeing him on stage is much more fantastic. RIP....and yippey ki-ay mofo!
 
69 year olds are late war babies or early boomers. Maybe they prayed a lot about not getting old during the sixties and seventies. As The Who sang in "My Generation" "Hope I die before I get old".
 
I actually had a very long conversation with him about a decade ago while he was making a movie called Snow Cakes. He was incredibly nice and humble. Sad day 🙁
 
Actually a cursory search seems to indicate that story is a bit overblown, I wanted to believe!

A more accurate version seems to be that she did tell him something at some point during the filming prior to the last book's release - probably just enough to instill the idea that 'Snape isn't all bad' or is more than what he seems. Book 7 was released just after Film 5 was released and Film 6 started filming about ~2m after that. So it probably didn't make a difference for Snape's most dramatic moments in 6/7 at least but may have tempered how he played Snape in the earlier ones.

Heard on NPR today that her discussion with him is what made him decide he wanted to take the role. He was thinking about turning it down cause he felt the character was too one dimensional.
 
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