Alan Rickman: The Man Who Owns His Role

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