A world where Alan Rickman didn't play Hans Gruber is a world I don't want to live in.
There are movie roles, and then there are movie roles: performances so indelibly tied to a specific actor that it's impossible to imagine another person in their stead. Perhaps this actor's interpretation of the script was too singular to ignore. Maybe they scored that elusive "the right place at the right time" phenomenon, and pop culture imprinted them onto the public consciousness as enduringly as a dinosaur's footprint on a river bed.
Alan Rickman Wasn’t Interested in an Action Movie In the late 1980s when Die Hard producer Joel Silver and director John McTiernan were on the hunt for their lead villain, Alan Rickman was already a veteran of the stage. He graduated from London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1974 before joining the equally distinguished Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remained for years.
For a performer who cut his teeth on William Shakespeare, Alan Rickman's bias against a script that might read as a pedestrian, graphically violent shoot-em'-up tracks. The Bard's tragedies have no shortage of gruesome deaths, but Shakespeare didn't pepper his soliloquies with profanity, machine guns, and caustically uttered Christmas puns.
"I was just thinking," he explained to Life in Pictures, "if I was wearing a suit and not all of this terrorist gear, then maybe there could be a scene where I put on an American accent, and he thinks I'm one of the hostages." Rickman's suggestion was a two-fold win: establishing a lived-in character through cinematic language and solving a scripting dilemma.
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