Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson

Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson are wonderful British actors who played a lot of interesting roles in the pair. What are only the famous Sibylla Trelawney and Severus Snape. You can also remember Karen and Harry, whom the actors embodied in "Real Love", and in the film "Reason and Senses" we saw Miss Deshvud and Colonel Brandon played by the same pair. And there were many other roles that were remembered by the audience.

The beginning of friendship

In 1995, Rickman played the Colonel in the film adaptation of the novel "Reason and Sense". It was a positive hero, and the image was significantly different from all the previous ones. Although by some accounts it was a "too" positive hero. But in this incarnation the actor liked the fans as much as in their incarnations of villains.

The fact that he got this role, the actor is indebted to Emma Thompson, who wrote the script. She was able to convince the producers that this hero will be able to act. Emma was not mistaken, because it was for the shooting in this film that Rickman was nominated for the BAFTA award in the category for the best supporting role.

Since then they have become friends. And many who saw the actors together, decided that Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson had a novel.

New roles

And further, when Alan began to try himself in directing, for his debut film "Winter Guest" he invited Emma Thompson. When, according to Rickman's ideas, a play was created, the main role was given to Philinde Lowe, the mother of Emma. The actress was played by her daughter.

The play was written five years before, but Low could not participate due to family circumstances. And by the time everything was working out, Emma was able to take part.

Emma Thompson about the death of Alan Rickman

The actors were good friends, so the news of death was painful. Emma wrote about this event, but it was difficult for her to give such a line. She just returned from the funeral.

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The actress could not help remembering in the message that she paid tribute to Alan's great sense of humor , wisdom and natural intelligence. She wrote that she considers luck to be the fact that she could work so much with this actor and recognize him as a director.