#RICKMAN SNAPE TV#

#RICKMAN SNAPE TV#

After graduating from Rada, the actor supported himself as a dresser for the likes of Nigel Hawthorne and Ralph Richardson before finding work with the Royal Shakespeare Company (as well as on TV as the slithery Reverend Slope in The Barchester Chronicles). Yet it was Rickman’s work on stage that established him as such a compelling talent, and to which he returned throughout his career. Last year, Rickman reunited with Kate Winslet, another Sense and Sensibility co-star, for his second film as director, A Little Chaos – a period romance set in the gardens of Versailles. He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again. I consider myself hugely privileged to have worked with him so many times and to have been directed by him. I couldn’t wait to see what he was going to do with his face next. He was the finest of actors and directors. The intransigence which made him the great artist he was – his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view. His capacity to fell you with a look or lift you with a word. What I remember most in this moment of painful leave-taking is his humour, intelligence, wisdom and kindness. Thompson – who said she had “just kissed him goodbye” – wrote:

In 1995, he directed Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law, in his directorial debut, the acclaimed Scottish drama The Winter Guest.

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