![]() ![]() It was June, the start of summer, and we were already sporting glorious suntans. Thinking back to 1991, I remember going to see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with my boyfriend (now husband) after returning from an early summer holiday in Greece. ![]() Alan Rickman playing The Sheriff of Nottingham He has of course appeared in many, many films and theatre productions since, but most of us will remember him best as The Sheriff of Nottingham, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies and as Emma Thompson’s foolish husband in Love Actually. Alan Rickman on the other hand turned in an amazing dramatic and comedic performance totally outshining his fellow actors. Kevin Costner was at the peak of his career around this time and although the film was a great success, I thought he was a bit underwhelming in it (give me Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood any day). In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he definitely stole the show playing the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham. He seems to have been the kind of actor who never played the leading man but kept popping up in supporting roles and stole the show. He was familiar to me then, so he must have appeared on TV shows and films prior to that. Thought I’d first really noticed Alan Rickman in Truly, Madly, Deeply – A lovely little film with Julia Stevenson but it turns out that Die Hard came out first where he brilliantly played the villain Hans Gruber. ![]() I am in disbelief – only four days into this blog and another of my heroes has died. ![]()
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