Alan Rickman felt ‘relieved’ for Harry Potter’s children before his death

Alan Rickman died on January 14, 2016, but only seven months before his death he openly said that he sees his young Harry Potter costars thrive as adults.

“I think it’s a relief as much as anything,” Rickman said Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grintachievement in the June 2015 episode Josh Horowitz‘with “Happy Sad Confused” Podcast.. “You watch the situation and like I only did it for seven weeks, they did it for 52 weeks. This was their life from 12 to 22. And you sometimes watched from the sidelines and threw in the odd lifeline because there was so little time for that.”

Rickman who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69 he played Severus Snape in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011 and stayed in touch with Radcliffe after filming ended.

“Only in recent years, for example, I managed to sit down in a coffee shop in New York with Daniel,” Rickman continued in the interview. “At one point he was down the road at one theater and I was down the road at another. Huge pride to go on him in a musical (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying). How dare he dance as well as the New York dancers? Because he worked on it.”

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Only recently did Radcliffe hear Rickman’s words. Horowitz played the clip on the April 2024 recording of “Happy Sad Confused” with Radcliffe in support Merry We Roll Along (for which Radcliffe won his first Tony Award).

“Alan Rickman scared me so much. How can you not be that voice?” Radcliffe, now 35, said after watching a clip of his late co-star. he was scared. I was scared of him and I thought, ‘This guy hates me.’ Somewhere he saw that I really wanted to do it and work on it.”

He added that Rickman was particularly supportive of his theater career on Broadway and in London’s West End. “He cut short his vacation in Canada to come visit me EquusRadcliffe said. “He saw every piece of stage work I did when he was alive. Then he took me out and we talked about it. He was one of the first people to say, like, ‘You should check out voice coaching and the Alexander Technique and all that stuff.’ He thought, “Otherwise you probably won’t get it, so you should research all these things.” i am so lucky It’s really beautiful to hear him say that. Thank you for showing me.”

While Rickman called Radcliffe a “phenomenal” performer in a 2015 podcast, that wasn’t always the case. In his personal journals, published in 2022 Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diarieshe recalled seeing Radcliffe become more professional in the process Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

“He’s so focused now. Serious and focused – but with a sense of fun,” says Rickman’s May 2003 entry on the third film. “I still don’t think he’s really an actor, but he will no doubt direct/produce. And he has such quiet, dignified support from his parents. Nothing is pushed.”

That has changed, of course – Radcliffe has said on several occasions that he hasn’t decided he wants to be an actor.Potter until the fifth film — and the younger actor didn’t mind hearing the bad along with the good. He even appreciated Rickman’s suggestion.

“I would definitely like to (try) directing,” Radcliffe said on See what happens live with Andy Cohen in November 2022. “The production looks like all the hard parts of the industry without any fun, so I’m not really interested in it.”

Radcliffe added: “Everything Alan wrote was a very beautiful and nostalgic read. Like, from his comments about us, like, ‘These kids need to learn their lyrics. It’s kind of a nightmare right now.” All those things until we met when I was here (in NYC) doing theater. It was very, very sweet to read all of that.”

Rickman is survived by his wife Rima Horton.