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Alan Rickman: Friends and stars pay tribute
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Tributes accept flooded in to "magnificent" and "witty" British actor Alan Rickman, well-known for his roles on stage and in films including Harry Potter and Die Hard.
Dame Helen Mirren, who appeared with Rickman in Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre in 1998 (pictured), said: "Alan was a towering person, physically, mentally and as an artist.
"He was utterly distinctive, with a voice that could propose honey or a hidden stiletto blade, and the contour of a Roman emperor. He was too a great friend, generous and social. He will be very missed by many."
Harry Potter author JK Rowlingtweeted: "There are no words to express how shocked and shocked and devastated I am to hear of Alan Rickman'south decease. He was a magnificent actor & a wonderful human being.
"My thoughts are with Rima and the rest of Alan'due south family unit. Nosotros have all lost a great talent. They have lost part of their hearts."
Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe wrote: "Alan Rickman is undoubtedly 1 of the greatest actors I volition e'er work with. He is also, one of the loyalest and about supportive people I've ever met in the picture industry. He was so encouraging of me both on set and in the years postal service-Potter.
"I'yard pretty sure he came and saw everything I ever did on stage both in London and New York. He didn't have to do that. I know other people who've been friends with him for much much longer than I take and they all say 'if you lot call Alan, it doesn't affair where in the world he is or how busy he is with what he's doing, he'll get dorsum to you inside a 24-hour interval'.
"People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner (or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and funny. And certain things obviously became even funnier when delivered in his unmistakable double-bass.
"Every bit an actor he was i of the first of the adults on Potter to treat me similar a peer rather than a kid. Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will bear the lessons he taught me for the residuum of my life and career. Film sets and theatre stages are all far poorer for the loss of this slap-up actor and human."
Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, wrote on Facebook: "I'm very sad to hear almost Alan today. I feel so lucky to have worked and spent time with such a special man and actor. I'll really miss our conversations. RIP Alan. Nosotros honey you."
Long-fourth dimension friend and frequent co-star Emma Thompson wrote: "Alan was my friend and so this is hard to write considering I have just kissed him bye.
"What I call up most in this moment of painful leave-taking is his humour, intelligence, wisdom and kindness. His chapters to barbarous you with a look or lift y'all with a word. The intransigence which fabricated him the cracking artist he was - his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view. I learned a lot from him.
"He was the finest of actors and directors. I couldn't wait to run across what he was going to do with his face up adjacent. I consider myself hugely privileged to have worked with him so many times and to have been directed past him.
"He was the ultimate ally. In life, art and politics. I trusted him absolutely.
"He was, in a higher place all things, a rare and unique human being and nosotros shall not see his like again."
Mark Rylance pays tribute to Alan Rickman, with whom he went to drama school
Sir Ian McKellen, who appeared with Rickman in the 1996 Television set movie Rasputin, wrote on Facebook:
"There is so much that is matchless to remember well-nigh Alan Rickman. His career was at the highest level, as actor on stage and screen and as director ditto. His last bequest of his film A Petty Chaos and his indelible functioning as Louis 14th, should now attain the wider audience they deserve.
"Beyond a career which the world is indebted to, he was a constant agent for helping others. Whether to institutions like Rada or to individuals and certainly to me, his advice was always spot-on. He put liberal philanthropy at the center of his life.
"He and Rima Horton (fifty years together) were always meridian of my dream-listing dinner guests. Alan would past turns be hilarious and indignant and gossipy and generous. All this delivered sotto, in that convoluted voice, as distinctive as Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, Alastair Sim or Bowie, company beyond compare.
"When he played Rasputin, I was the Tzar Nicholas. Filming had started before I arrived in St Petersburg. Precisely as I walked into the hotel-room, the phone rang. Alan, to say welcome, hope the flight was tolerable and would I like to join him and Greta Scacchi and others in the restaurant in 30 minutes? Alan, the concerned leading man. On that moving picture, he discovered that the local Russian crew was getting an even worse lunch than the balance of united states of america. So he successfully protested. On my first twenty-four hour period before the camera, he didn't like the patronising, bullying tone of a note which the managing director gave me. Alan, seeing I was a little brokenhearted, delivered a quiet, concise resume of my career and loudly demanded that the director up his game.
"Behind his starry insouciance and careless elegance, behind that mournful face, which was only equally beautiful when wracked with mirth, in that location was a super-active spirit, questing and achieving, a super-hero, unassuming but deadly effective.
"I then wish he'd played Rex Lear and a few other classical challenges but that'southward to be greedy. He leaves a multitude of fans and friends, grateful and insufficient."
Others paying tribute included actress Mia Farrow, who wrote: "Everyone who knew Alan Rickman - or worked with him or watched his brilliant performances, feels this awful loss.
"Such a lovely, kind, generous, funny and vivid man. Give thanks you Alan Rickman for that and for so many flawless performances."
Hollywood star Susan Sarandonsaid: "Alan Rickman was an histrion'south histrion; courageous, generous, witty & surprising. When he laughed he lit upward a room. A prince. You volition exist missed."
Comedian and writer Stephen Frytweeted: "What desperately sad news about Alan Rickman. A man of such talent, wicked charm & stunning screen & stage presence. He'll be sorely missed."
Zoolander and Run across the Parents thespian Ben Stillersaid: "What a wonderful role player Alan Rickman was. He literally created his ain genre of character. #RIP"
Charlie Sheentweeted: "We lost a genius today, Alan Rickman. This gentleman redefined the big screen villain, forever. RIP"
And comedian Eddie Izzardtweeted: "I do non desire my heroes to die! Alan Rickman is dead & he was another hero. Alan - thank you for being with the states. Nosotros are sorry you lot had to get."
Gambon remembers friend Alan Rickman
Friend and co-star Sir Michael Gambon, who play Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, told BBC World at One: "Everybody loved Alan. He was great. I can't believe this has happened.
"He was always happy and fun, and creative, and very, very funny. I could never be with him doing Harry Potter and keep a directly face. I laughed about of the time. Alan was just bright, and it's a terrible shock.
"He was a peachy phase player. I spent years with him every bit a friend. We spent most of our time laughing or wondering what play we were going to do adjacent."
Harry Potter actor James Phelps, who played Fred Weasley, said on Twitter he was "shocked and sorry" to hear the news. He wrote: "One of the nicest actors I've ever met. Thoughts and prayers with his family at this time."
His twin brother Oliver Phelps, who played George Weasley, added: "Terribly sad news about the passing of Alan Rickman. A funny and engaging person who put a shy young player at ease when I was on Harry Potter."
Other Harry Potter co-stars who accept paid tribute to the histrion include Warwick Davis, who tweeted: "So terribly pitiful to hear of the passing of Alan Rickman. Honoured to accept shared the screen with him. #Marvin #Snape He'll be sorely missed."
Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley, wrote: "Just had awful news of Alan Rickman's decease. Utterly devastated. Naught more to say at this time."
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35315589
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