If the best thing you can say of an actor is that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else playing one of their parts, than Exhibit A might be Severus Snape. But I’m not sure anyone could have made a better Sheriff of Nottingham than Alan Rickman. You understand… I cannot allow them to grow up as my enemies.” Now that I’m older, I understand that a lot of people could have played Robin Hood in that movie, maybe better than Kevin Costner. Rickman leaves toothmarks all over the scenery with lines like, “Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.” But he’s also genuinely chilling when he says, “Our union would allow these children to grow up as my allies. I wasn’t allowed to watch Die Hard as a kid, so my earliest exposure to him was 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (the granddaddy of all gritty reboots). Even in Love Actually, he’s a guy trying to cheat on Emma Thompson. I can’t do it with a fraction of his gravitas, but damn if it doesn’t feel good to try.Īlan Rickman catapulted to fame as tall as Nakatomi Plaza playing the villain in Die Hard, and he never quite escaped bad guy typecasting after that. I try to say “Obvious” like that twice a week at least. He hesitates a moment before deigning to answer with a gloriously icy “Obvious.”Įveryone seems to think he’s saying “Obviously,” but I don’t hear the “ly.” And somehow, “Obvious” is just next level shade. “But you were unsuccessful?” she inquires. “Yes,” he drawls majestically, staring into the distance. “You applied first for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post, is that correct?” she asks. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he’s interrogated by Delores Umbridge. ![]() One of the most popular movie quotes in my house is courtesy the late Alan Rickman.
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