Every role Alan Rickman plays he owns it. You can't even imagine anyone else approaching the roles that he portrays in his films. He really doesn't make them all his own. Do you have larger philosophical goals in how you portray it? Or do you stay focused just on that character in the context of everything else that happens? Well, I mean, I want to be part of a story. So yeah, and I would rather what I do doesn't diminish the audience. That's an important statement because in all the roles that I remember seeing you in, you were in a way bigger than yourself. And so you're putting something in there that you don't get with every performer
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with Alan Rickman concludes with a discussion of “the mysterious mechanism of acting and theatre and storytelling” and the use of special effects in the Harry Potter movies.
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