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(#9) He Helped Design His Snape Costume
Snape's billowing cape is one of the character's hallmarks. During the design stage, Rickman gave his input on how the costume should ultimately look. "I was very involved in the costume and the look," he told The New York Times. "I said the sleeves should be really tight, and there should be a lot of buttons."
Rickman admitted the finished product contributed to his understanding of the character. "As soon as I put that costume on something happens. You can't be someone else inside that outline," he said. "It has an effect on me."
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(#2) He Often Visited With Children On Set
Rickman was perhaps, in some regards, intimidating to his colleagues, but they were also quick to point out that he was exceedingly kind and giving. He would often chat with children who visited the sets of the Harry Potter films.
"Alan Rickman, pretty much every day of filming, he had a whole troop of little children [visiting]," Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) recalled. She continued:
It was the most bizarre scene to see Snape in this black robe, usually with, like, a bib on - we had to wear these bibs so we didn't ruin our costume - surrounded by all these happy little children who were just chatting away to him.
In the words of Rupert Grint, Rickman was "a great gentleman."
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(#13) The Costume Department Secretly Made His Costume Bigger After He Gained Weight
Little did Rickman know, but the Harry Potter costumers were letting out his Snape cape whenever he returned from vacation. "Every time Alan Rickman was going to holidays in Tuscany and coming back with two or three extra kilos, we made it bigger without telling him," designer Jany Temime said. "That's the only thing we did, but it was the same costume."
Of all the looks and costumes in the Harry Potter movies, Snape's was the only one that remained largely unchanged - except for the increased size, of course.
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(#5) He Kept A Funny Sketch Of Himself Drawn By Rupert Grint During Filming
Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley in Harry Potter) was doodling caricatures while on set one day. As he was working on one of Rickman, Grint had no idea that Snape himself was looking over his shoulder. "I was so scared," Grint said, because in the sketch he had "exaggerated a few of his features." But Rickman was not upset in the slightest - the exact opposite, in fact.
"I made him sign it, and I have it in my possession," Rickman said proudly. "I'm very fond of it."
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(#6) He Played A Fart Joke On Daniel Radcliffe During Filming
During Prisoner of Azkaban, Rickman had some fun by pulling an epic prank on Daniel Radcliffe. The scene was a sleepover in the Great Hall, where Harry and his friends all had sleeping bags. Rickman, actor Michael Gambon (Dumbledore), and director Alfonso Cuarón hid a remote-controlled fart machine inside Radcliffe's sleeping bag, and they made certain it let out all sorts of unfortunate sounds at inconvenient times.
"I immediately thought: 'This is one of the other kids [messing] around, and we were going to get in trouble,'" Radcliffe later said. "But as it turns out, it was one of the members of Britain's acting royalty."
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