Mysterious Man
Rickman had specific questions that were devised on a list and specified as off-limits. These questions were not allowed to be asked under any circumstances in interviews. Some of these included topics such as, “his family, his girlfriend, his talent for playing villains, any aspect of acting at all (‘too, too hard to articulate’) right down to the nether reaches of trivia (‘my clothes—not an interesting topic of conversation’).”
Mysterious Man
Suffered Secretly
Following his stroke, he received word that he had pancreatic cancer and was given only a few months to live. He valued his privacy immensely and kept his illness as secret as he could, only sharing the news with those closest to him. When he passed on the world was stunned as they had no idea of the circumstances.
Suffered Secretly
