Alan Rickman’s Journal Reveals Why He Kept Working on ‘Harry Potter’ Amid Cancer Battle: ‘See It Through’
26.09.2022 - 18:49
/ usmagazine.com
Fully committed. Alan Rickman didn’t want to stop working on the Harry Potter franchise amid his battle with cancer, newly published journal entries reveal.
The late actor, who died at age 69 in 2016, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in 2005 before filming began for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Diary excerpts published in The Guardian on Saturday, September 24, shed more light on Rickman’s decision to continue with the production despite his private health struggles.
In a January 2006 entry, Rickman described his experience preparing for a surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after doctors recommended his entire prostate be removed as part of his cancer treatment. “Pre-op. This is like a film set. Nothing seems real,” the Love Actually star wrote. “Remembering nothing but with that painkiller high in the recovery room. Attentive, caring people.”
Weeks after his operation, the Die Hard star made his decision to remain part of the Harry Potter universe. “Finally, yes to HP 5. The sensation is neither up nor down,” he wrote in January 2006. “The argument that wins is the one that says: ‘See it through. It’s your story.'”
Rickman portrayed Severus Snape, the Hogwarts potions professor turned headmaster, in all eight of the Harry Potter movies, the last of which premiered in 2011. An entry written shortly after the second movie’s release hinted that the British actor didn’t plan on staying in the franchise forever.
“Talking to [agent] Paul Lyon-Maris about HP exit, which he thinks will happen,” Rickman wrote in an entry dated December 2002. “But here we are in the project-collision area again. Reiterating no more HP. They don’t want to hear it.”
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