Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Pile into the car and drive to Siena to get to Il Campo before dark. To the Patio Bar where, around 8pm, I called LA and said OK to HP [Harry Potter]. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. A rehearsal. Linda asks for two lines out of five. Has she looked at the scene apart from on the drive in? I am catapulted into a dark and frowning place – silent with resentment at having to work solo. Again. And so – a long day with a scene that’s all about prosthetics and 80lb wings. Pain versus concentration. And still Linda blows her lines. The tone is sometimes gossipy and amusing but at other times anxious and irritable. He second-guesses everything, fretting over the roles he has turned down and the ones he has accepted, and quietly seethes at the perceived failures of script writers, costume designers, directors and fellow actors. After a screening of Galaxy Quest, the 1999 sci-fi spoof which was an unexpected smash, all he can think about are the scenes he was in that have been cut. “Stories of great notices are not helping lift my leaden heart,” he writes. “Here we go AGAIN. This is so boring. Let it go. Move on. Don’t angst over what you can’t change.”

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To the tapas restaurant with Sean [Biggerstaff] and Robbie Coltrane for many plates of deep-fried indulgences before going to the hotel for red wine and a bag of chocolates from the mini-bar. Hopeless … A hat has been made for Snape. A hat? For Snape? He was surrounded by people who loved him and up until 13 January was still in control of everything that was going on around him. But he wasn’t there after that, and he died at 9.15 in the morning of 14 January 2016. I was there. He wasn’t in pain. He just went. Sheekey’s. In a day of memorable moments … it was capped by having Bill Clinton come over to our table to say hello. I say “Mr President” to remind myself that he was that, rather than another actor or the maître d’ … Nina: Deeply! Deeply! You passed on deeply, which was your word, which means you couldn't have meant it! So you're a fraud, that's it!A 6.15 wake up for my first actual day on Sense and Sensibility. Makeup and hair becomes a gentle negotiation – hair, especially. Heated rollers eventually win. Kate W looking so beautiful in her gilded wedding gown. Emma T with her eyes everywhere. Harriet W & I uncool enough to admit just enjoying being here.

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Meet Fiona [Shaw] & Deborah [Warner] – one of the major terrible twos in the art world. Hildegard [Bechtler] joins and we’re on the train to Glyndebourne. When you get there – there it all is – a bit of little Olde England still determinedly putting out its collapsible chairs, sandwiches, champagne. I kept thinking “someone with a machine gun will appear any minute”. talking to Rima today – she lost her seat [on Kensington and Chelsea borough council, in local elections]. And that is seriously their loss and her freedom.

Doze until 11.30. Coffee in the bar. Car at 12. Home. Go out to vote immediately. Woman with blue rosette foolishly asks for our number. “No,” snaps Rima. “Oh,” she says. “Oh well, variety … ” On the way out she tries again. “Hope to persuade you to … ” Foolish. A torrent of (calm) anti-Boris Johnson abuse falls from my lips, emboldened, no doubt, by my quote in today’s Guardian [“If Boris Johnson gets elected it would be a case of the lunatic having no clue how to run the asylum”]. The British electorate proving yet again that they never vote for anything. “Someone’s doing us down … let’s disown him.” To Ruby [Wax] and Ed [Bye, her husband] for a brief glimpse of Ruby’s interview with Madonna. But who’s doing all the talking? Guess. for 8. Arrive to find Ben Kingsley & wife, Peter Hain, others … then Richard & Judy arrive, then Tony & Cherie with three-year-old Leo in his arms, in pyjamas.

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

This is our last official day of shooting. Kate is now 16 (?) weeks pregnant and giving everything. By the end of each day she is wiped but still unbelievably focused. Zaika – dinner for Patty and John McEnroe. McEnroe is very sweet and loving with Patty [Smyth, his wife] and endearingly unegocentric and polite in other ways. I’m sure he’s a great dad and would be a fantastically loyal friend. Who would have guessed? Also – he doesn’t mind gossip – no one likes Rusedski. These kids need directing. They don’t know their lines and Emma [Watson]’s diction is this side of Albania at timesAbsolute pillar to post – from the euphoric yesterday [London had just won the 2012 Olympics] to the numbness of today. A bus and three? Four? stations. Hundreds injured and (as of today) 37 killed.

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Sky News is full of anti-Brown propaganda. How depressing the English are … Cameron and his little band of droopy drawers are what they deserve. To the Star Lake auditorium [near Pittsburgh] to walk on water. Which all works fine apart from the by now predictable 3am when the camera comes round, and my brain is frying gently. But there’s a vaguely celebratory atmosphere, the lake lit beautifully and as dawn broke we drank some champagne in the makeup trailer and said goodbyes.Afternoon and evening we planned tomorrow’s bed scenes and shot the first kiss. Georgina [Cates] brave and focused. I realise as soon as that [Snape’s] ring and costume go on – something happens. It becomes alien to be chatty, smiley, open. The character narrows me down, tightens me up. Not good qualities on a film set. I have never been less communicative with a crew. Fortunately, Dan [Radcliffe] fills that role with ease and charm. And youth. Tony Blair’s standing-down speech – he could have saved himself a great deal of time by just reprinting the lyrics to My Way.