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 in the present day’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 mentioned, ‘Look, I’m spinning plates right here. I really want to know what Snape’s as much as? Am I a pure baddie?’ He was the one individual I instructed: ‘You had been in love with Harry’s mom.’
“I talked him by way of it: ‘You’re a double agent. However you do dislike Harry. You may’t overcome your fairly visceral dislike of this boy who appears identical to your arch enemy.’ So I instructed Alan Rickman what was coming, method earlier than it got here within the films.”
Rickman, who died in 2016, performed Snape in all eight of the flicks of the bestselling guide collection. Snape was one in every of a number of primary figures to be finally killed off, and Rowling shared her misery at having to get rid of 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 all the time 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 presently has two books left to jot down in her hit detective Cormoran Strike collection, and 6 books in her head in complete. She is the bestselling writer on the earth, with reported gross sales of 600million books.
