Random Delightful Stories About Alan Rickman From Other Actors And Crew On Set (12 items)

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  (#2) He Used His 'Harry Potter' Paychecks To Treat Friends And Colleagues To Dinner

  Rickman became known among his friends and colleagues for frequently treating those around him to dinner, whether on set or off. Kate Winslet wrote about an anecdote she heard at his memorial service for Entertainment Weekly: 

  At Al's memorial, Juliet Stevenson told the story of how whenever Al would go out to supper, and anyone else would try and pay, he would somehow have phoned ahead or slipped his credit card ahead of the meal, so no one even got a look at the check. He'd just say, "I’ve got two words for you: Harry Potter." And he became known for doing that.
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  (#1) He Protested When The Crew Of 'Rasputin' Didn't Get A Decent Lunch

  Rickman won a Golden Globe for his performance in the 1996 telefilm Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny. During filming, Rickman was anything but a dark servant. As costar Ian McKellan, who played Tsar Nicholas II, remembered in a Facebook post, "He discovered that the local Russian crew was getting an even worse lunch than the rest of us. So he successfully protested."

  Rickman also stood up for McKellan, who was reportedly being picked on by the director during filming. As McKellan recalled:

  On my first day before the camera, he didn't like the patronizing, bullying tone of a note which the director gave me. Alan, seeing I was a little crestfallen, delivered a quiet, concise resume of my career and loudly demanded that the director up his game.
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  (#3) He Regularly Invited Kids To The 'Harry Potter' Set

  Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, remembered how Rickman's big heart was seemingly at odds with his serious reputation and his infamous stern appearance. His softer side was evident in some of his actions regarding guests he invited to the set. 

  Of this lesser-known side of Rickman, Lynch told Entertainment Weekly:

  Alan was a Method actor, so we were all pretty much terrified of him on set... But the memory that sticks out to me was we were allowed to bring guests [to the set]... Alan Rickman, pretty much every day of filming, he had a whole troop of little children [visiting]. It was the most bizarre scene to see Snape in this black robe... surrounded by all these happy little children who were just chatting away to him.
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  (#11) He Posed For A Photo In His Codpiece During The Filming Of 'Dogma'

  In Kevin Smith's Dogma, Rickman portrayed the "Voice of God." The codpiece Rickman wore to represent his genderless character amused him. Subsequently, Rickman humorously posed for a photo wearing the same prosthetic as his character in the movie. 

  After Rickman passed, Smith posted the story to his Facebook page, writing: 

  Alan was the first non-friend who signed up to the flick, but he became a great friend in record time. In this pic, he holds the Ken doll his Dogma character's lack of genitalia was modeled after. I'll never forget his incredible dulcet tones guffawing at the rubber crotch makeup he was wearing: one of the greatest actors who ever lived, tickled by a cinematic lack of a d*ck.
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  (#7) He Smoothed Things Over With Tim Allen With Wine And Chocolate Ice Cream

  In 1999, Rickman costarred with Tim Allen in the movie Galaxy Quest. But their first meeting didn't go very well. Allen said in The Hollywood Reporter, "I don’t think [Rickman] liked me all that much when we first started shooting."

  One of the issues may have been Allen's quirky sense of humor. For example, when he learned that Rickman studied with famed acting teacher Uta Hagen, Allen said, "I went to the Uta Haagen-Dazs School."

  When Rickman and Allen later became friends, Allen remembers that Rickman "came to my house with a bottle of wine and chocolate Haagen-Dazs as a peace offering and said, 'This is for you because whoever taught you taught you very well.'"
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  (#4) When A Child With Cancer Visited The 'Harry Potter' Set, Rickman Got Him A Role

  Paula DuPré Pesmen produced the first three Harry Potter movies. She remembered how Rickman not only welcomed a child with advanced cancer to the set of Prisoner of Azkaban, but also made sure the boy had a small part in the movie.

  Of the experience with Rickman, DuPré Pesman told the Huffington Post: 

  Alan [kind] of went into his Snape-mode in costume, and said, 'Why isn’t this child in the film?' Everyone had a good laugh, and Alan took him by the hand and put him into the crowd of kids as they were panning across. The back of him is actually in a shot.

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