JK Rowling has lately opened up about sharing particulars of Snape character in Harry Potter to late actor Alan Rickman.
In a brand new interview with Occasions of London, Rowling confessed she spilled the key about Snape character to Rickman as a result of he was confused.
“He rang me up and mentioned, ‘Look, I’m spinning plates right here. I actually need to grasp what Snape’s as much as? Am I a pure baddie?’ He was the one particular person I instructed: ‘You have been in love with Harry’s mom,'” revealed the writer.
Rowling talked about, “I talked him by way of it: ‘You’re a double agent. However you do dislike Harry. You may’t overcome your fairly visceral dislike of this boy who appears to be like identical to your arch enemy.'”
“So, I instructed Alan Rickman what was coming, approach earlier than it got here within the motion pictures,” she added.
Rickman, who died in 2016, performed Snape in all eight of the films of the bestselling guide sequence.
Rowling expressed her unhappiness at having to cast off characters like Snape within the guide she had created.
“I don’t like killing off characters, however it’s a part of life, isn’t it? Killing Snape was terrible. I all the time knew he was going to go,” she famous.
The author identified, “I couldn’t bear killing Lupin and Tonks [Harry’s teacher and his wife], that was so unhappy. Oh and Fred [Weasley].”
In the meantime, Rowling knowledgeable she is at present writing two books in her hit detective Cormoran Strike sequence, and 6 books in her head in complete.
