JK Rowling has shared the dialog she had with actor Alan Rickman, when she revealed to him the true problems of his character within the Harry Potter films.
Rickman performed Severus Snape, Harry’s instructor and obvious tormentor who finally seems to be working for good forces, together with defending Harry in opposition to the likes of Voldermort and his acolytes.
Rowling has recorded an interview for her web site, answering followers’ questions on her writing course of, with a preview transcribed in at present’s Occasions of London. In it, she describes how Rickman was confused concerning the motivations of his character earlier than she defined them to him. She revealed:
“He rang me up and stated, ‘Look, I’m spinning plates right here. I really want to grasp what Snape’s as much as? Am I a pure baddie?’ He was the one individual I advised: ‘You have been in love with Harry’s mom.’
“I talked him by means of it: ‘You’re a double agent. However you do dislike Harry. You possibly can’t overcome your fairly visceral dislike of this boy who seems to be identical to your arch enemy.’ So I advised Alan Rickman what was coming, approach earlier than it got here within the films.”
Rickman, who died in 2016, performed Snape in all eight of the films of the bestselling guide sequence. Snape was one in all a number of major figures to be finally killed off, and Rowling shared her misery at having to eliminate characters she had created:
“I don’t like killing off characters, however it’s a part of life, isn’t it? Killing Snape was terrible. I at all times knew he was going to go. I couldn’t bear killing Lupin and Tonks [Harry’s teacher and his wife], that was so unhappy. Oh and Fred [Weasley].”
Rowling says she at the moment has two books left to put in writing in her hit detective Cormoran Strike sequence, and 6 books in her head in whole. She is the bestselling writer on this planet, with reported gross sales of 600million books.
