{"id":143979,"date":"2025-01-15T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/alan-rickman-felt-relief-harry-potter-kids-thrived-before-his-death\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:15:28","slug":"alan-rickman-felt-relief-harry-potter-kids-thrived-before-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/alan-rickman-felt-relief-harry-potter-kids-thrived-before-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Rickman Felt ‘Relief’ Harry Potter Kids Thrived Before His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Alan Rickman<\/strong> died on January 14, 2016, but just seven months before his death, he opened up about seeing his young Harry Potter<\/em><\/a> costars thrive as adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a relief as much as anything else,\u201d Rickman said of Daniel Radcliffe<\/strong><\/a>, Emma Watson<\/strong> and Rupert Grint<\/strong>\u2018s success in a June 2015 episode of Josh Horowitz<\/strong>\u2018s \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cYou watch that situation and as much as I was only doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks. This was their life from 12 to 22. And you would watch it from the sidelines at times and throw the odd lifeline in because there was so little time for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rickman, who died of pancreatic cancer<\/a> at age 69, played Severus Snape<\/a> in all eight Harry Potter<\/em> films from 2001 to 2011, and he kept in touch with Radcliffe after filming concluded.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only in recent years that, for example, I\u2019ve managed to sit down in a cafe in New York with Daniel,\u201d Rickman continued in the interview. \u201cAt one point, he was down the road at one theater and I was up the road in another. Huge pride to go to see him in the musical [How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying<\/em>]. How dare he be dancing as well as the New York dancers? Because he worked at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOnce a Hogwarts student, always a Hogwarts student \u2014 and the Harry Potter cast\u2019s frequent reunions prove that. In 2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone hit theaters, introducing the world to Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, who played the three lead characters from J.K. Rowling\u2018s novels: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It wasn\u2019t until recently that Radcliffe heard Rickman\u2019s words. Horowitz played the clip at an April 2024 \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d recording with Radcliffe in support of Merrily We Roll Along<\/em> (for which Radcliffe won his first Tony Award<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so intimidated by Alan Rickman. How can you not be by that voice?\u201d Radcliffe, now 35, said after watching the clip of his late costar. \u201cEven hearing that voice you forget quite how low it was until it echoes through you. I was so intimidated by him for the first three movies. I was terrified by him and was like, \u2018This guy hates me.\u2019 Somewhere along the line, he saw that I really wanted to do this and work at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added that Rickman was particularly supportive of his theater career on both Broadway and London\u2019s West End. \u201cHe cut short a vacation in Canada to come and see me in Equus<\/em>,\u201d Radcliffe said. \u201cHe saw every piece of stage work I did when he was alive. He would take me out afterwards and we would talk about it. He was one of the first people to say, like, \u2018You should look at voice coaching and Alexander technique and all this stuff.\u2019 He was like, \u2018You\u2019re probably not going to get this otherwise, so you should just investigate all this stuff.\u2019 I am so lucky. To hear him say that is really lovely. Thank you for showing me that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Rickman called Radcliffe a \u201cphenomenal\u201d performer in the 2015 podcast, that wasn\u2019t always how he felt. In his personal journals, published in 2022\u2019s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman<\/em>, he recalled seeing Radcliffe become more professional during Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s so concentrated now. Serious and focused \u2014 but with a sense of fun,\u201d Rickman\u2019s May 2003 entry reads of the third movie. \u201cI still don\u2019t think he\u2019s really an actor but he will undoubtedly direct\/produce. And he has such quiet, dignified support from his parents. Nothing is pushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, that changed \u2014 Radcliffe has said on several occasions that he didn\u2019t determine he wanted to be an actor post-Potter<\/em> until the fifth film \u2014 and the younger actor didn\u2019t mind hearing the bad along with the good. He even appreciated Rickman\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n

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