There’s an interview with Alan Rickman from 1991; you can find it on YouTube. At the time, he was best known for his roles as criminal mastermind Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the tyrannous Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The journalist – American – asks him, “Do you like playing villains?” The actor’s lip begins to curl. “Sure… it was fun.” He explains, patiently, that he’s done other things. The journalist ploughs on: “You don’t intend to keep playing these hyperbolic Hollywood villains?” Rickman, presumably now saying swear words in his head, replies, “Prrrrobably not”; he doesn’t think, as an actor, there’s anywhere else to go. The exchange only becomes more enjoyable once you’ve read his diaries, published today and covering his life and career from 1993 up to his death in 2016. Few things irritated Rickman quite so much as a journalist’s inane questions.
- 10/4/2022
- by Jessie Thompson
- The Independent - Film
Two Harry Potter co-stars of Alan Rickman have been tasked with reading passages from the late actor’s upcoming book. On Thursday, it was announced that the audiobook for the posthumous release of Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, will feature Alfred Enoch (Dean) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny) as narrators.
The book, out Oct. 18, is also set to be read by his wife, Rima Horton, and his close friend Steve Crossley.
Madly Deeply is set to include entries detailing both his life and career. The book features passages from...
The book, out Oct. 18, is also set to be read by his wife, Rima Horton, and his close friend Steve Crossley.
Madly Deeply is set to include entries detailing both his life and career. The book features passages from...
- 9/29/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
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Harry Potter stars Alfred Enoch and Bonnie Wright are among those lending their voices to narrate the audiobook of Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
In Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, releasing on Oct. 18, volumes of diary entries written by the late actor running from 1993 to his death in 2016 are shared in which Rickman candidly details his life and career. From inside his home to the sets of films and plays including Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard, the Harry Potter franchise to Noël Coward’s Private Lives and the final film he directed, A Little Chaos, Rickman’s diaries offer insight into both his private and public life.
“Reading them is like listening to Rickman chatting to a close companion. Meet Rickman the consummate professional actor, but also the friend, the traveler, the fan, the director, the enthusiast; in short,...
Harry Potter stars Alfred Enoch and Bonnie Wright are among those lending their voices to narrate the audiobook of Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
In Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, releasing on Oct. 18, volumes of diary entries written by the late actor running from 1993 to his death in 2016 are shared in which Rickman candidly details his life and career. From inside his home to the sets of films and plays including Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard, the Harry Potter franchise to Noël Coward’s Private Lives and the final film he directed, A Little Chaos, Rickman’s diaries offer insight into both his private and public life.
“Reading them is like listening to Rickman chatting to a close companion. Meet Rickman the consummate professional actor, but also the friend, the traveler, the fan, the director, the enthusiast; in short,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Lexy Perez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The much-loved actor, who died in 2016, was an avid diary-keeper. In this second extract from his journal, he takes us behind the scenes, while his wife, Rima Horton, reflects on his final days
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Movie-goers caught their first sight of Alan Rickman in 1988 in the action thriller Die Hard. At the age of 42, antediluvian by Hollywood standards, he was cast as Hans Gruber, a Teutonic terrorist who has seized control of a Los Angeles skyscraper and taken hostages. Acting opposite Bruce Willis’s NYPD detective, Rickman stole the show with his devil-may-care interpretation of a psychopath and received a deluge of plaudits.
Until then his career had largely been forged in Britain, most notably – after Rada and an apprenticeship in repertory theatre – at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he stood out in plays such as Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Following Die Hard, he was in...
Read more from Alan Rickman’s diaries
Movie-goers caught their first sight of Alan Rickman in 1988 in the action thriller Die Hard. At the age of 42, antediluvian by Hollywood standards, he was cast as Hans Gruber, a Teutonic terrorist who has seized control of a Los Angeles skyscraper and taken hostages. Acting opposite Bruce Willis’s NYPD detective, Rickman stole the show with his devil-may-care interpretation of a psychopath and received a deluge of plaudits.
Until then his career had largely been forged in Britain, most notably – after Rada and an apprenticeship in repertory theatre – at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he stood out in plays such as Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Following Die Hard, he was in...
- 9/25/2022
- by Alan Rickman
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s no surprise to those who know Lesley Manville, the London-based Olivier Award winner (Ibsen’s “Ghosts”) and 2018 Oscar nominee (Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread”), that she charmingly carries the title role in the third movie incarnation of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” adapted by writer-director Anthony Fabian from Paul Gallico’s popular 1958 novel.
Cinephiles discovered Manville over her ten-year detour from her early musical theater career (when she was married to Gary Oldman; they raised a son) to collaborate with filmmaker Mike Leigh after 1980’s BBC movie “Grown-Ups.” After that, she helped him to create memorable characters in seven films, most notably the heartbreakingly annoying Mary in “Another Year” (2010).
Manville recently rejoined her “Vera Drake” costar Imelda Staunton in Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” Season 5 (which starts streaming this November on Netflix) as Princess Margaret to Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth, which recently wrapped in London, to be...
Cinephiles discovered Manville over her ten-year detour from her early musical theater career (when she was married to Gary Oldman; they raised a son) to collaborate with filmmaker Mike Leigh after 1980’s BBC movie “Grown-Ups.” After that, she helped him to create memorable characters in seven films, most notably the heartbreakingly annoying Mary in “Another Year” (2010).
Manville recently rejoined her “Vera Drake” costar Imelda Staunton in Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” Season 5 (which starts streaming this November on Netflix) as Princess Margaret to Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth, which recently wrapped in London, to be...
- 7/18/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
As the title character of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Lesley Manville charms nearly everyone she encounters: homeless men on the streets of Paris, the heads of the Dior fashion house (including Christian Dior himself), models, dressmakers and racehorse track operators. Even the more snobbish people she encounters eventually find themselves taken in by Ada, a kindhearted but tough English cleaning lady who — following the devastating news that her missing-in-action husband has been declared dead by the British army — makes it her life’s mission to acquire a Dior dress and live out her dreams of glamour.
For people who know Manville best from her Oscar-nominated work on 2017’s “Phantom Thread,” where she played cynical and tough-minded fashion house manager Cyril, seeing Manville as the outsider in the world of high fashion may initially feel like a bit of an in-joke. But Manville makes it easy to forget all her past roles with the film,...
For people who know Manville best from her Oscar-nominated work on 2017’s “Phantom Thread,” where she played cynical and tough-minded fashion house manager Cyril, seeing Manville as the outsider in the world of high fashion may initially feel like a bit of an in-joke. But Manville makes it easy to forget all her past roles with the film,...
- 7/16/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Henry Holt publishers has announced it will be releasing “Madly Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” a collection of Rickman’s handwritten diaries, on October 18.
Rickman wrote his diaries with the intention of future publication, and by the time of his death in 2016, they totaled 27 volumes. Now, his collection has been edited into a single volume. The diaries paint a deep portrait of a renowned actor, a political activist, an avid traveler and a devoted friend.
Starting in the early ’90s and kept for the rest of his life, the diaries offer new insight into the mind of the man. All in his own inimitable voice, Rickman details the extraordinary and the ordinary with great depth and intimacy.
The introduction to the book features an entry from Kate Winslet, Rickman’s co-star in “Sense and Sensibility” and “A Little Chaos.” Rickman’s widow Rima Horton has written the afterword, chronicling...
Rickman wrote his diaries with the intention of future publication, and by the time of his death in 2016, they totaled 27 volumes. Now, his collection has been edited into a single volume. The diaries paint a deep portrait of a renowned actor, a political activist, an avid traveler and a devoted friend.
Starting in the early ’90s and kept for the rest of his life, the diaries offer new insight into the mind of the man. All in his own inimitable voice, Rickman details the extraordinary and the ordinary with great depth and intimacy.
The introduction to the book features an entry from Kate Winslet, Rickman’s co-star in “Sense and Sensibility” and “A Little Chaos.” Rickman’s widow Rima Horton has written the afterword, chronicling...
- 6/23/2022
- by Carson Burton
- Variety Film + TV
Alan Rickman, the British film and theater veteran, died on Thursday. He was 69.
Rickman’s family confirmed the news in a statement. It read, “The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends,” per the BBC.
Born in 1946, Rickman went to college to study graphic design, but decided after several years in that profession to pursue acting. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and after graduation found work in various theater companies throughout the UK.
His biggest stage role came in 1985 when he landed the male lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” When the production moved to Broadway in 1987, Rickman was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance.
However, when the play was adapted into the 1988 film “Dangerous Liaisons,” Rickman was not asked to reprise his role, losing out to John Malkovich.
Rickman’s family confirmed the news in a statement. It read, “The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends,” per the BBC.
Born in 1946, Rickman went to college to study graphic design, but decided after several years in that profession to pursue acting. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and after graduation found work in various theater companies throughout the UK.
His biggest stage role came in 1985 when he landed the male lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” When the production moved to Broadway in 1987, Rickman was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance.
However, when the play was adapted into the 1988 film “Dangerous Liaisons,” Rickman was not asked to reprise his role, losing out to John Malkovich.
- 1/14/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
The death of Alan Rickman in 2016 at the age of 69 was a blow to those who’ve appreciated his many performances over the years, including in the Harry Potter franchise, Die Hard, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, to name just a few. However, fans will get a chance to learn more about Rickman’s perspective via the publication of 27 of his diaries as a book through a family-approved project that should reach us in Fall 2022.
Canongate acquired the worldwide rights to the material of the diaries, which are being released in the United States by Holt, and represent work completed over a period of 25 years. The book is currently planned to be titled The Diaries of Alan Rickman, although we’d imagine a more creative name may be found by 2022. And before anyone gets upset about private information being put out into the public, the English actor reportedly always...
Canongate acquired the worldwide rights to the material of the diaries, which are being released in the United States by Holt, and represent work completed over a period of 25 years. The book is currently planned to be titled The Diaries of Alan Rickman, although we’d imagine a more creative name may be found by 2022. And before anyone gets upset about private information being put out into the public, the English actor reportedly always...
- 11/23/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
The diaries of the late actor Alan Rickman — best known for playing Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” movies — will be published as a book in fall 2022.
As reported by The Guardian, Rickman’s journals covered everything from his thoughts on acting to insights on friendships and politics. The avid theater-goer also reviewed plays he attended and shared behind-the-scenes stories from the set of “Harry Potter,” which he was a part of for a decade, between 2001 and 2011.
The 27 volumes of handwritten diaries, spanning more than 25 years of Rickman’s life and career, will be edited down into a single book. The British actor began writing his journals in the early ’90s with the intention of publishing them. When Rickman started this personal project, his career had taken off with roles that included Valmont in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on-screen as Hans Gruber in 1988’s “Die Hard.
As reported by The Guardian, Rickman’s journals covered everything from his thoughts on acting to insights on friendships and politics. The avid theater-goer also reviewed plays he attended and shared behind-the-scenes stories from the set of “Harry Potter,” which he was a part of for a decade, between 2001 and 2011.
The 27 volumes of handwritten diaries, spanning more than 25 years of Rickman’s life and career, will be edited down into a single book. The British actor began writing his journals in the early ’90s with the intention of publishing them. When Rickman started this personal project, his career had taken off with roles that included Valmont in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on-screen as Hans Gruber in 1988’s “Die Hard.
- 11/21/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
A collection of Alan Rickman’s personal diaries will be published together as a single book and be made available in 2022, according to The Guardian.
The actor known for the “Harry Potter” films and “Die Hard” wrote 27 volumes of diaries that span 25 years and date back to the early ’90s. “The Diaries of Alan Rickman” will be edited into one book and will be published in the U.S. and the U.K. in the fall of 2022.
The handwritten volumes are described as “witty, gossipy and utterly candid” in their description of his daily life. Rickman had intended that they would one day be published, with him writing up until his death of pancreatic cancer at age 69 in 2016.
Alan Taylor, editor of the Scottish Review of Books, is editing “The Diaries of Alan Rickman” for publisher Canongate in the U.K. and Holt in the U.S. Taylor previously put...
The actor known for the “Harry Potter” films and “Die Hard” wrote 27 volumes of diaries that span 25 years and date back to the early ’90s. “The Diaries of Alan Rickman” will be edited into one book and will be published in the U.S. and the U.K. in the fall of 2022.
The handwritten volumes are described as “witty, gossipy and utterly candid” in their description of his daily life. Rickman had intended that they would one day be published, with him writing up until his death of pancreatic cancer at age 69 in 2016.
Alan Taylor, editor of the Scottish Review of Books, is editing “The Diaries of Alan Rickman” for publisher Canongate in the U.K. and Holt in the U.S. Taylor previously put...
- 11/21/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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