I think that was supposed to be a compliment. What's wrong with him? He gets very irritable when someone reminds him some of his villians roles. I also heard an interview in which they named Die Hard and Robin Hood and he went mad. Relax yourself!!
@NotADood There're several interviews where he gets a bit annoyed about the villian thing. He goes pretty mad in an interview in BBC Manchester, in a programme called 'Ground Beneath Her Feet' (it's called 'Alan Rickman Radio Interview', put that info to find it). In some others he's very patient about the subject. I guess it all depends in the mood he is on that day and if he likes the interviewer or not. But a fan? Poor guy! Have a look to a video called "Stop boring Alan Rickman". It's funny.
@WildKitten46 He does show some annoyance in that one ("that was 20 years ago..."). When you say he went mad though, I picture him losing his temper and yelling. English people are so polite just showing some mild irritation is considered going crazy?
@NotADood I'm not English (are you American?) but I consider that he goes sightly mad because you can perfectly notice the irritation in his voice. I mean, I could not see anyone yelling at the interviewer in any case. In fact, I heard an interview where the two guys began being disrespectful with the other but never yelled. It's something that you wouldn't do because you were given an education and you're in the radio (it can be recorded) and you're famous! Maybe you're used to other reactions.
He doesn't 'judge' his characters but he judges the poor fan who comes out to see him by deeming him not to have a life simply because he enjoys his work?
oh wow, I think Alan is sexy as hell and an utterly fabulous actor but the more you listen to him you realize that while he's thoughtful, intelligent, reflective and has depth he also is an unmitigating ballbreaker, can be extremely flippant and rude and probably doesn't think before he talks. Telling a fan to get a life is what got Shatner into so much trouble (and rightfully so) all those years ago. Why talk to fans in an intimate setting if you're only too happy to insult them. Bad Alan!
@iloveyousomuch780 Anyone who tells a fan to get a life after they've just been complimented by them isn't what I'd call nice. The more I learn about Mr. Rickman's personality the more disappointed I become. I never thought I'd say it but sexiness can only get you so far before your behaviour becomes glaringly apparent! How rude. I bet that guy felt like crap after being told that. Suppose the guy had cancer, or a family member died and watching Robin Hood cheered him up? :(
@GrissomLovesSara Well.... He does seem to have that type of sense of humur, because he looked like he was joking,because other people were laughing with him. I'm sure he didn't mean it, because he looked so nice in that other video.
@iloveyousomuch780 Meh, I'm sorry, but this totally turned me off. Why other people laughed, I cannot say. It's one thing to be bitchy on set to other actors or difficult to an interviewer but once it spreads to your fans, you've gone too far. I wonder, had this guy said, I agreed with the reviewers who thought the Sheriff was way too over the top and out of place in the movie, would he have gotten a better response? Ugh, this was like a splash of icewater on my hot little crush on him! Booo!
@iloveyousomuch780 I also wonder had the guy said 'I read Shakespeare's sonnets again and again or I listen to Beethoven's 5th repeatedly' would AR still have said Get A Life? Art is art. He's putting his own chosen artform down by not understanding how one might return to his performances on film again and again for pleasure. Art is subjective; who is he to say get a life?! It's something a 14 year old boy would say, not a respected actor/gentleman. I thought he had more intellect than that.
@GrissomLovesSara Hahahahahaha "I bet that guy felt like crap after being told that. Suppose the guy had cancer, or a family member died and watching Robin Hood cheered him up? :(" That made me laugh, thank you!
@JaaadeMaffaa :( I still haven't gotten a life. 2 months and I'm still enjoying Alan's work. I should be ashamed of myself... LOL I've even seen Seminar TWICE. I have NO LIFE Alan! Help me! Chastise me! Set me straight!! Make me stop and get a life that doesn't include your work!! I have my first meeting with AWA next week. Alan's Work Anonymous. We'll all sit in a circle and talk about it and my sponsor will confiscate my DVD's! 'You watched Barchester Chronicles again... how disappointing'
@JaaadeMaffaa LOL I just thought of something else! Can you imagine the all-out ass-reaming I would have gotten if I would have stood up in all my innocent, Alan Rickman-loving adoration and announced to him that he's a freakin' playlist on my iPod!? I shudder to contemplate it! We'll (and I know there are others out there) just keep THAT dirty little secret between us...
hahaha Alan is so funny :D He's so wonderful in the films...however I do disagree that Snape is 2-dimensional...he is not. The character does have an "outline" like he said but that doesn't necessarily make him 2-dimensional.
I don't know maybe he is just disappointed that he doesn't get the screen time in the films that he and the character deserve. Most of the characters are unfortunately cut to the bone in the films. But Rickman is certainly the one who uses every second of his time to be sure !!
Scatharis, he did call Snape a two-dimensional character in whose "psyche we are not interested". Those were his words. I am not saying at all that his performance as Snape lacks depth - on the contrary. I am just disappointed how he underestimates Snape as a character. He compares Snape to the Sheriff of Nottingham, just slightly amending that Snape is a bit more complicated. That's not enough. Snape is one of the most ambigious figures in literature. I'd hoped he appreciated him better
"We are not interested in the psyche of Severus Snape."
Well, I am afraid the fans are. Severus Snape is actually comparable to the character of Alex (or Alec, can't remember right now) in Snow Cake. Both act out of guilty consciousness, both are withdrawn. I am dissappointed Alan doesn't acknowledge this. Severus Snape is a very complex character, probably even more complex than Alex or Colonal Brandon.
@nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...?
@Scatharis he did call Snape a two-dimensional character in whose psyche "we are not interested." Those were his words. I am not saying at all however that his performance as Snape lacks depth - on the contrary, as we all know, Alan does a fantastic job as usual. I am just disappointed how he views Snape as a character. He compares Snape to the Sheriff of Nottinghacorrecting himself by saying that Snape is slightly more complicated. Well I find this disappointing.
@nefyd ...I wonder... After he completed Deathly Hollows on April it was mentioned that he acted in one certain scene so much intensive that a man from the stuff gets tears in his eyes... One can´t play such a scarcly described figure( "he has just an outline") for such a long time and so consequent if you´re NOT interested in his pysche. .. One dimension = figure visible, second dimension = figure "hearable", a third dimension would have been = figure explains itself via acts and speech
Sorry, it should go: 1 dimenison = figure is visible, 2 dimensions = figure is visible AND hearable, 3 dimensions = figure is visible AND hearable AND explains itself therewith in the course of a story...
@Scatharis And by the way I read that article too about the member of staff ( I think the costume designer or art director) who cried when watching Rickman perform Snape's death scene. I am absolutely certain that it will be very touching indeed and I am totally looking forward to see Rickman's performance as well.
@Scatharis yes, the article was in the Telegraph Magazine. The guy is called stuart Craig and he is the production designer. you can read the article on the snitchseeker website. I am sorry I think youtube doesn't allow me to post the link directly
@Scatharis "third dimension: figure explains itself via acts and speech." well okay, until now Severus Snape indeed didn't explain himself very much, that is true because he had to cover up his role as a spy obviously. But in DH, he does explain himself - or at least I hope he does in the films too. Thus he becomes three dimensional, his truth comes out with giving Harry his memories.
The Sheriff of Nottingham on the other hand never explains his actions, so he truly is only two dimensional.
@nefyd Wasn´t there the scene where he stands next to Marian, the children in front of and explained he couldn´t allow these kids to grow up as his "enemies"? - And how about the world famouse "I´ll cut your heart out with a spoon?"-quote? - How about that talk to that one kid when he was tellings about his own childhood-days? - Oh I think that guy is telling much about him and his motivations!!
@Scatharis you are right !! I should have remembered. I don't know what Rickman is on about in this interview then, referring to characters as two-and three dimensional. There obviously is no room for such a division. Maybe I really don't get what he's saying. It just seemed to me that he thought the character in "Snow Cake" and Col. Brandon in S&S deeper or worthier or more difficult (they require a different approach I think he said.) than Snape or the Sherriff.
@nefyd@nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...? - I don´t think so!
@nefyd@nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...? - I don´t think so!
@nefyd@nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...? - I don´t think so!
Peoples' perceptions of Alan's reactions make me laugh sometimes... interesting.
MsSardonicus 1 month ago
If you see this PLEASE go to my channel and watch my Snape and Lily tribute to the song A Thousand Years :)
JaaadeMaffaa 1 month ago
I think that was supposed to be a compliment. What's wrong with him? He gets very irritable when someone reminds him some of his villians roles. I also heard an interview in which they named Die Hard and Robin Hood and he went mad. Relax yourself!!
WildKitten46 3 months ago
@WildKitten46 I want to see that interview where he goes mad.
Charlie Rose asked him extensively about Die Hard just a couple years ago and he seemed happy to talk about it.
NotADood 2 months ago
@NotADood There're several interviews where he gets a bit annoyed about the villian thing. He goes pretty mad in an interview in BBC Manchester, in a programme called 'Ground Beneath Her Feet' (it's called 'Alan Rickman Radio Interview', put that info to find it). In some others he's very patient about the subject. I guess it all depends in the mood he is on that day and if he likes the interviewer or not. But a fan? Poor guy! Have a look to a video called "Stop boring Alan Rickman". It's funny.
WildKitten46 2 months ago
@WildKitten46 He does show some annoyance in that one ("that was 20 years ago..."). When you say he went mad though, I picture him losing his temper and yelling. English people are so polite just showing some mild irritation is considered going crazy?
NotADood 2 months ago
@NotADood I'm not English (are you American?) but I consider that he goes sightly mad because you can perfectly notice the irritation in his voice. I mean, I could not see anyone yelling at the interviewer in any case. In fact, I heard an interview where the two guys began being disrespectful with the other but never yelled. It's something that you wouldn't do because you were given an education and you're in the radio (it can be recorded) and you're famous! Maybe you're used to other reactions.
WildKitten46 2 months ago
@WildKitten46 I am American. There's some yelling in our media. It's rare in celebrity interviews though.
NotADood 2 months ago
He doesn't 'judge' his characters but he judges the poor fan who comes out to see him by deeming him not to have a life simply because he enjoys his work?
GrissomLovesSara 4 months ago
oh wow, I think Alan is sexy as hell and an utterly fabulous actor but the more you listen to him you realize that while he's thoughtful, intelligent, reflective and has depth he also is an unmitigating ballbreaker, can be extremely flippant and rude and probably doesn't think before he talks. Telling a fan to get a life is what got Shatner into so much trouble (and rightfully so) all those years ago. Why talk to fans in an intimate setting if you're only too happy to insult them. Bad Alan!
GrissomLovesSara 4 months ago
I wonder if he's nice....
iloveyousomuch780 4 months ago
@iloveyousomuch780 Anyone who tells a fan to get a life after they've just been complimented by them isn't what I'd call nice. The more I learn about Mr. Rickman's personality the more disappointed I become. I never thought I'd say it but sexiness can only get you so far before your behaviour becomes glaringly apparent! How rude. I bet that guy felt like crap after being told that. Suppose the guy had cancer, or a family member died and watching Robin Hood cheered him up? :(
GrissomLovesSara 4 months ago
@GrissomLovesSara Well.... He does seem to have that type of sense of humur, because he looked like he was joking,because other people were laughing with him. I'm sure he didn't mean it, because he looked so nice in that other video.
iloveyousomuch780 4 months ago
@iloveyousomuch780 Meh, I'm sorry, but this totally turned me off. Why other people laughed, I cannot say. It's one thing to be bitchy on set to other actors or difficult to an interviewer but once it spreads to your fans, you've gone too far. I wonder, had this guy said, I agreed with the reviewers who thought the Sheriff was way too over the top and out of place in the movie, would he have gotten a better response? Ugh, this was like a splash of icewater on my hot little crush on him! Booo!
GrissomLovesSara 4 months ago
@iloveyousomuch780 I also wonder had the guy said 'I read Shakespeare's sonnets again and again or I listen to Beethoven's 5th repeatedly' would AR still have said Get A Life? Art is art. He's putting his own chosen artform down by not understanding how one might return to his performances on film again and again for pleasure. Art is subjective; who is he to say get a life?! It's something a 14 year old boy would say, not a respected actor/gentleman. I thought he had more intellect than that.
GrissomLovesSara 4 months ago
@GrissomLovesSara Hahahahahaha "I bet that guy felt like crap after being told that. Suppose the guy had cancer, or a family member died and watching Robin Hood cheered him up? :(" That made me laugh, thank you!
JaaadeMaffaa 2 months ago
@JaaadeMaffaa :( I still haven't gotten a life. 2 months and I'm still enjoying Alan's work. I should be ashamed of myself... LOL I've even seen Seminar TWICE. I have NO LIFE Alan! Help me! Chastise me! Set me straight!! Make me stop and get a life that doesn't include your work!! I have my first meeting with AWA next week. Alan's Work Anonymous. We'll all sit in a circle and talk about it and my sponsor will confiscate my DVD's! 'You watched Barchester Chronicles again... how disappointing'
GrissomLovesSara 2 months ago
@JaaadeMaffaa LOL I just thought of something else! Can you imagine the all-out ass-reaming I would have gotten if I would have stood up in all my innocent, Alan Rickman-loving adoration and announced to him that he's a freakin' playlist on my iPod!? I shudder to contemplate it! We'll (and I know there are others out there) just keep THAT dirty little secret between us...
GrissomLovesSara 2 months ago
"Get a life"? what did he mean?
ojamajoyy 5 months ago
hahaha Alan is so funny :D He's so wonderful in the films...however I do disagree that Snape is 2-dimensional...he is not. The character does have an "outline" like he said but that doesn't necessarily make him 2-dimensional.
xFirebird925x 6 months ago
he looks lovely when he smiles
dystopian786 6 months ago
i recommend the search for john gissing for any rickman lover he is adorable and witty in this movie
Garza1921 7 months ago 3
I love how wise he is on evaluating characters. he's so insightful <3
crawfordphanatic19 7 months ago 2
I highly recommend snow cake!!! and Nobel Son and Bottle Shock too. He is brilliant in these!
Lillyko 7 months ago
''I don't play villains, I play very interesting people.'' - Alan Rickman
squamish4244 7 months ago 14
OMG I love when he says Severus Snape!
WoodstockSnape 8 months ago 7
i love his voice.
WeskerLogan 11 months ago
"You have to be a bit athletic with your equipment"
Please reassure me that I'm not the only person who took that on a different level :)
TheSupaplum 1 year ago 9
I should really get a life LOL!
I love him <3 Want to meet him <3
macakarte 1 year ago
I just noticed how mesmerising his eyes are. Seriously though. Look at them.
o0OneRaindropO0o 1 year ago 2
Admit it Alan you LOVE playing villians! (Or misunderstood characters for Severus Snape's sake
slyrocks3 1 year ago 4
He's old enough to be my grandfather, but he's absolutely the most amazing actor. He has the hottest voice too!
courtmontana 1 year ago 5
snow cake was one of my favourites! Alan Rickman is my favourite male actor, and i loooove sigourney weaver too c: he is so lovely!
simplesimplicity4 1 year ago 2
back out of the mic Rick damn
brucekirk89 1 year ago
He does a beautiful job portraying Severus Snape and getting at that empathetic factor within him. He is absolutely devine as Snape.
Stinkyfart 1 year ago 3
hahaha, get a life?! hahaha.
MsMDarling 1 year ago
I don't know maybe he is just disappointed that he doesn't get the screen time in the films that he and the character deserve. Most of the characters are unfortunately cut to the bone in the films. But Rickman is certainly the one who uses every second of his time to be sure !!
nefyd 1 year ago
Scatharis, he did call Snape a two-dimensional character in whose "psyche we are not interested". Those were his words. I am not saying at all that his performance as Snape lacks depth - on the contrary. I am just disappointed how he underestimates Snape as a character. He compares Snape to the Sheriff of Nottingham, just slightly amending that Snape is a bit more complicated. That's not enough. Snape is one of the most ambigious figures in literature. I'd hoped he appreciated him better
nefyd 1 year ago
"We are not interested in the psyche of Severus Snape."
Well, I am afraid the fans are. Severus Snape is actually comparable to the character of Alex (or Alec, can't remember right now) in Snow Cake. Both act out of guilty consciousness, both are withdrawn. I am dissappointed Alan doesn't acknowledge this. Severus Snape is a very complex character, probably even more complex than Alex or Colonal Brandon.
nefyd 1 year ago
@nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...?
Scatharis 1 year ago
@Scatharis he did call Snape a two-dimensional character in whose psyche "we are not interested." Those were his words. I am not saying at all however that his performance as Snape lacks depth - on the contrary, as we all know, Alan does a fantastic job as usual. I am just disappointed how he views Snape as a character. He compares Snape to the Sheriff of Nottinghacorrecting himself by saying that Snape is slightly more complicated. Well I find this disappointing.
nefyd 1 year ago
@nefyd ...I wonder... After he completed Deathly Hollows on April it was mentioned that he acted in one certain scene so much intensive that a man from the stuff gets tears in his eyes... One can´t play such a scarcly described figure( "he has just an outline") for such a long time and so consequent if you´re NOT interested in his pysche. .. One dimension = figure visible, second dimension = figure "hearable", a third dimension would have been = figure explains itself via acts and speech
Scatharis 1 year ago
Sorry, it should go: 1 dimenison = figure is visible, 2 dimensions = figure is visible AND hearable, 3 dimensions = figure is visible AND hearable AND explains itself therewith in the course of a story...
Scatharis 1 year ago
@Scatharis And by the way I read that article too about the member of staff ( I think the costume designer or art director) who cried when watching Rickman perform Snape's death scene. I am absolutely certain that it will be very touching indeed and I am totally looking forward to see Rickman's performance as well.
nefyd 1 year ago
@nefyd - Oh, are you sure it was particulary said it was at his "death-scene"??? - I recall the word "a pivotal scene"...
Scatharis 1 year ago
@Scatharis yes, the article was in the Telegraph Magazine. The guy is called stuart Craig and he is the production designer. you can read the article on the snitchseeker website. I am sorry I think youtube doesn't allow me to post the link directly
nefyd 1 year ago
@Scatharis "third dimension: figure explains itself via acts and speech." well okay, until now Severus Snape indeed didn't explain himself very much, that is true because he had to cover up his role as a spy obviously. But in DH, he does explain himself - or at least I hope he does in the films too. Thus he becomes three dimensional, his truth comes out with giving Harry his memories.
The Sheriff of Nottingham on the other hand never explains his actions, so he truly is only two dimensional.
nefyd 1 year ago
@nefyd Wasn´t there the scene where he stands next to Marian, the children in front of and explained he couldn´t allow these kids to grow up as his "enemies"? - And how about the world famouse "I´ll cut your heart out with a spoon?"-quote? - How about that talk to that one kid when he was tellings about his own childhood-days? - Oh I think that guy is telling much about him and his motivations!!
Scatharis 1 year ago
@Scatharis you are right !! I should have remembered. I don't know what Rickman is on about in this interview then, referring to characters as two-and three dimensional. There obviously is no room for such a division. Maybe I really don't get what he's saying. It just seemed to me that he thought the character in "Snow Cake" and Col. Brandon in S&S deeper or worthier or more difficult (they require a different approach I think he said.) than Snape or the Sherriff.
nefyd 1 year ago
@nefyd @nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...? - I don´t think so!
Scatharis 1 year ago
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@nefyd @nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...? - I don´t think so!
Scatharis 1 year ago
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@nefyd @nefyd You misred him at this point I think. - There were never been a part he played in which achievment of the psyche he hadn´t put a lot of time and strenght in it. He is the one who had to INSIST that Rowling herself tell him more about Snape than that was already known to the point of time when he complied to play the part, or he would be unable to play Snape! - Dude, would he ever be able to play SUCH A SNAPE without interest in his movements...? - I don´t think so!
Scatharis 1 year ago
:D
Yay!
Shadowforeverandaday 1 year ago
LOL!
"Get a life."
I love him!
NekoChanSenpai 1 year ago
Nice to see him chat!!
NissNossNess 2 years ago
Severus Snape is so more complicated!! haha!!
NissNossNess 2 years ago
The MOST amazing person! I love him! <3 :D
RedheadCutie95 2 years ago 20
He's the coolest dude ever
ROCDUC 2 years ago
Just wonderful!
I just cannot stop watching his films and listening to him - but somehow I was sure he would say something like that...
"Get a life!" :-)
lapislazuli7 2 years ago
LOL. Get a life.
I love his wits! XD
gondegoogoo 2 years ago 37
whats the music in the backround in the beginning?
mobes1821 2 years ago
It is from the movie "Galaxy Quest".
RavenclawStudent 2 years ago
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
katiebenedict 2 years ago
The opening music from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Which I believe I shall watch now.
ChasingSarahRedux 2 years ago
What did the man say after Alan Rickman said "Get a life." It sounded like, "Sorry, I didn't hear you," but I'm not sure.
violdamor 2 years ago 8
That's what I thought he said.
RavenclawStudent 2 years ago
The full exchange was:
Guy: I love Robin Hood, I watch it over and over again.
AR: Get a life.
Guy: Sorry I didn't hear you, what?
katiebenedict 2 years ago 17
Thanks for the clarification.
violdamor 2 years ago
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CatJes85 2 years ago