Daniel Radcliffe was ‘terrified’ of Alan Rickman while filming ‘Harry Potter’: ‘He hates me’

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Riddikulus. Daniel Radcliffe revealed Thursday that he once believed that Alan Rickman, who played the sinister potions master Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” franchise, actually hated him. “I was so intimidated by Alan Rickman.

How can you not be by that voice?” Radcliffe, 34, declared during an appearance on the “Happy, Sad, Confused” podcast.“I was so intimidated by him for the first three movies,” he said. “I was terrified by him and was like, ‘This guy hates me.’ Somewhere along the lines he saw that I really wanted to do this and work at it.”According to the “Horns” alum, Rickman — who died at the age of 69 in 2016 after a battle with cancer — eventually became one of his biggest supporters and even once ended a vacation early so he could catch his friend in a Broadway show. “He cut short a vacation in Canada to come and see me in ‘Equus.’ He saw every piece of stage work I did when he was alive,” Radcliffe recalled. “He would take me out afterwards and we would talk about it.

He was one of the first people to say like, ‘You should look at voice coaching and investigate all this stuff.’”Radcliffe, who was sitting with his “Merrily We Roll Along” costars Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, made the revelation after the podcast’s host played a clip of Rickman from 2016 praising Radcliffe’s dedication to the franchise. “As much as I was doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks,” Rickman said in the clip. “This was their life from 12 to 22.

And you would watch it from the sidelines at times and throw the odd lifeline in because there was so little time for that.”“It’s only in recent years that I’ve managed to sit down in a cafe with Daniel in New York,” the “Die Hard” star continued. “He was at a.