Alan Rickman playing Severus Snape
(Picture: Murray Close)BFI Southbank hosted a moving tribute to late actor Alan Rickman yesterday. Rickman, who died from cancer in 2016, kept diaries which will be published this week as Madly, Deeply. The book’s title is a play on Truly Madly Deeply, a 1990 film in which Rickman played the ghost of a dead man returning to his lover.
At the event Stanley Tucci recalled Rickman meeting his children for the first time. He asked “are you Harry Potter fans?” and proceeded to talk to them in character as Severus Snape. “He was nothing but sweet and kind to the kids,” Tucci said. “Later he came to the wedding and the kids were a bit older and they sat next to Alan and he was just himself. I remember my daughter Camilla saying ‘who was that man I was talking to? That’s Snape!’”
