Рікман м’якосердний | Rickman the Warm-Hearted

Рікман м’якосердний | Rickman the Warm-Hearted

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Rickman the Warm-Hearted

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By Ann Trebbe – USA Today;

Alan Rickman isn’t going to like this.

His final words on a recent morning as he wagged a finger: “No villains. No bad guys.”

Consider capturing him on paper a “test,” said Rickman, who looks more California beach boy than esteemed Shakespearean actor. “See if you can write an entire article without using the words ‘villain’ or ‘bad guy’ once.” Impossible.

Two of his widely-seen and well-loved characters: the terrorist villain in Die Hard and the bad-guy Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

“A journalist’s lasso,” he calls the lumping of his more than 20 years of acting (he won’t give his age) into simply “the guy who plays villains.”

Take a look at his newest offering, he urges. Close My Eyes, a movie about incest now in limited release, opens in New York in January. It casts him as the warm, humorous husband of a woman in love with her brother.

“I like the idea that any film raises a few eyebrows,” he says. “It’s intriguing, isn’t it, that you could make a film about wife-battering and nobody would talk about whether eyebrows would be raised. But as soon as you talk about something that’s actually a passionate relationship between two individuals – and it’s something that happens.”

He has just come from doing a Japanese play in London, and from making a movie in Pittsburgh with Bull Durham‘s Tim Robbins.

London-raised Rickman is the only one in his family to go into the theater, he first felt the acting “sensation” at 7, when he had the lead in the school play, King Grizzly Beard.

Although he spent some time as a graphic artist, acting was “inevitable,” he says. “I knew it would happen. It was just a question of other things to deal with, other voices in me screaming for attention until that one could be dealt with. It screamed loudest and had been there longest.”

Traveling is what he likes to do when he’s not acting – the Australian outback is the place he was “most affected by in recent years.”

And thrills make him happy. Roller coaster rides, to be specific. “Everything falls away.”

The best? Colossus at Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif., north of Los Angeles.

And he loves to daydream: “Give me a window and I’ll stare out it.”

His long-time love – Rima Horton, a teacher and politician. They’re not married: “I think every relationship should be allowed to have its own rules.” Secret to staying together?

“She’s tolerant,” he says slowly thinking. “She’s incredibly tolerant. Unbelievably tolerant. Possibly a candidate for sainthood.”

What requires such tolerance? “I’m an actor.”

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