Silly Little Country

Cushman on Rickman

Robert Cushman has long been one of my favourite local theatre reviewers. In today's National Post he tells a wonderful story about Alan Rickman's debut, in the midst of ruminating on managing a career that spans stage and screen.
What are my two favourite Rickman roles?
Certainly the movie Close My Eyes, in which he gets to use throughly what Cushman calls "the voice, the irony, the authority, the all-pervading mournfulness", all of which are needed as the character's wife begins an affair with her brother (played by Clive Owen, the matinee idol still-to-be).
That was on screen.
On the stage I had the privilege to see him in Coward's 'Private Lives'. The play is always a delight, but this pairing was quite good.
Thanks to Robert Cushman for an amusing look at the start of this fine career.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 11:37 AM