Has Anyone Ever Met Alan Rickman?

He's sadly dead, so your tenses are wrong.

A good friend who worked in theatre for years swore up and down that Alan Rickman was gay and pretty nonchalant about it.

How should I know? He never sucked MY wand.

R1 Sorry! He is so alive to me...

R2 Not disagreeing but if that were true, how come there hasn't been a whisper about it? Everyone says that him and Rima were a loyal couple. How did your friend find out? Was it British or American theatre?

R3 lol...

I think it's kind of weird to be stalking someone who is dead.

R5 it is weird, but it's something I have also done.

Only to people who were alive while I was and then dead before I discovered how great they were. Put me on a mourning binge.

Wasn't he in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? I think he is still alive

Rickman was probably bi, like a lot of actors. He was with his partner for decades: They didn't marry until just a little while before he died, probably for estate planning purposes.

Never read any bad press about him. By all accounts very nice.

Yes I just met him. He’s a British gentleman, quite lively and enjoyable.

R7, I don't know if you're joking, but just in case, the actor in Ferris Bueller was Alan Ruck.

R8 yes they got married in 2012 and he died in 2016. Him and his wife only found out he had cancer in July 2015. He had some symptoms like lower back pain but it was put down to too much gardening. In LA while promoting A Little Chaos, he had leg pain and he went to a phlebotomist because he was scared it was a blood clot esp since he had to fly back to London. The phlebotomist saw something told hom to get it checked out with a specialist in London.

Why, yes, yes I have. I don't wish to talk about it.

His slightly creep Colonel Brandon in Sense & Sensibility is still one of my favorites; I think his performances in HP were kind of ham-fest, but that's what they were paying him for. All the HP kids seem to have nothing but wonderful things to say about them & it appeared he tried to encourage them. I don't think they'd still be saying that after all these years if their love for him wasn't sincere and kids can sniff out a phony from a mile away.

He always seemed like he pinged to high heaven... lots of camp but also seemed like a good person. RIP Alan

[quote] Wasn't he in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? I think he is still alive

Yes--Rickman played the principal's secretary with all the pencils stuck in her hair.

My favorite roles he played were when he was cast against his usual type as the slimy creep: AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE; TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY; MICHAEL COLLINS; GALAXY QUEST; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. I also liked that he was very good at being funny, as so many well trained British actors are.

He had a very unusual face, because he could look very dashing and sexy and even handsome in some parts, and quite ugly in others.

Always liked him in things. He was in a very early episode of the French/Saunders/Ullman/Wax sitcom Girls On Top, which was probably the earliest role I can recall seeing him in.

The best Valmont ever.

Loved him as Hans Gruber.

In another DL thread on him years ago someone reported that a female friend of theirs had been felt up by Alan at a party.

He was friends with Victoria Wood and appeared in a couple of her TV comedy specials. Obviously he didn’t take himself too seriously.

Was having drinks at Joe Allen's about 2006 and he was sitting alone, drinking quietly. He seemed a little morose and pensive and so thankfully no one bothered him. The energy was not good.

He was in the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series. "The Cardboard Box". Jude Law was in one of those episodes as well. I forget wh. one, but it was the one where the dog didn't bark in the night. Jude's character dressed as a young lady. He has at least one scene with Brett. The episode was "Shoscombe Old Place."

R23 no Zemen, Alan rickman only played Sherlock in a play not on TV. Sherlock Holmes is a British play written by William Gillette starring Alan Rickman as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Hugues as Dr. Watson, performed from 4 november to 11 december 1976 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Professor Moriarty  was played by David Suchet.

Jeremy Brett who played Sherlock on TV once gave an interview mentioning Alan: ----- I think the greatest star in America at the moment is Kevin Costner. I think "Dances With Wolves" is probably the greatest film I've ever seen--one of them. It's about a love inside of America that I adore. About courage and strength and pioneer's clarity. And he's brilliant as Robin Hood, and I'm afraid Alan Rickman, who plays the Sheriff, is appalling. I said to him, "Now, I know you're playing a villain, love, I know you're trying to register, I know you're trying to get a better part for the next one, but if you're overacting, it's disgraceful."

Americans love him [Rickman]. When he underplayed in "Die Hard," nobody noticed him. A lot of people were saying the villain overshadowed Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood."

I think he's a disgrace. He's a very good actor, too, and that makes it worse. He was brilliant onstage in "Liaisons Dangereuses." Why he's done this--it must be desperation or something. But Kevin, he is my new hero. My old hero, of course, is Robert DeNiro.  ------

Seems Jeremy Brett waa not a fan!

Flop thread I fear

Jeremy Britt was a fairly good actor in certain parts and my favorite Sherlock Holmes but as person he was a very fucked up man with enormous personal problems and his personal opinions on anything are of no interest to me.

R24, you are absolutely right. I just checked youtube. The actor does bear a resemblance, but it's not him.

He was a douche, um, I think.

Rose up from working class roots. A rare breed. The newer generations of British actors are mostly from posh schools. The lack of diversity is a bit unfortunate.

R24 thank you for sharing. Interesting that someone would call Rickman “appalling” in Robin Hood, and in the same breath say Kevin Costner was “brilliant” in the title role (with that accent).

Also, it’s weird to think back on how huge Dances with Wolves was (and that streak Costner had in the late 80s/early 90s). It wasn’t quite on the level of Titanic, but close. Perhaps having a bigger young audience made the difference with how it’s remembered (verses Wolves).

The fact he thought Kevin Costner was brilliant in Robin Hood absolutely floors me. Did Jeremy Brett have a crush on Costner that totally blinded him? Because whatever you may think of Costner in other roles, he was dreadful as Robin Hood. Totally miscast.

Britt had a very dry wit. Maybe that entire spiel about Kostner and Rickman was meant to be tongue in cheek? Maybe not. Britt was a weird man,

He was in a play and I was in town on business.

I plowed his tight bussy for 2 or 3 nights in a row before we each moved on.