Since Alan Rickman’s unexpected death in 2016, movie fans have been missing a part of themselves — more specifically, a part of that side of our brains that just loves to root for the bad guys.
Throughout his career, Rickman marked many childhoods and adulthoods playing villains and anti-heroes such as Die Hard’s Hans Gruber, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ Sheriff of Nottingham, Sweeney Todd’s Judge Turpin, and, of course, Harry Potter’s Professor Snape.
His imposing posture, grave countenance, and thunderous, yet silky voice were able to put the fear of God in the hearts of Japanese businessmen and magical English children with the same amount of ease.
Indeed, there are very few actors able to sell an evil character quite like him.
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