Alan Rickman Diaries Chronicle Ever-Changing Feelings On ‘Harry Potter’ Franchise
deadline.comAlan Rickman, the late Harry Potter star, is making his mixed feelings about sticking with the franchise known through diary entries published Saturday by The Guardian.The diary entries about Potter demonstrate Rickman’s devotion to his character Professor Severus Snape but also his reluctance to lock himself in to a long-running franchise.As early as 2002, just after the release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second installment of the series, Rickman wrote that he’d spoken to his agent: “Reiterating no more HP.
They don’t want to hear it.”Rickman opted to continue as Snape, however, a decision that was reinforced just before the filming of the fifth entry in 2005: The actor had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and decided to see Potter through to its end. “Finally, yes to HP 5,” he writes. “The sensation is neither up nor down.
The argument that wins is the one that says: ‘See it through. It’s your story.'”Rickman, who died from the illness in 2016, would portray Snape in all eight Potter films through 2011.
His feelings on the immensely popular film series, and his role in it, are included in the diary that will be published in book form on Oct.
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