Tom Felton reminisced this week a couple of time when Alan Rickman was an entire accio-hole to him — in essentially the most loving method potential.
The Harry Potter star, who performed the entitled Draco Malfoy within the movie franchise, shared a narrative concerning the late Die Arduous actor during which Alan made Tom as nervous as Ron Weasley round spiders.
The incident occurred throughout an evening shoot for a scene in 2009’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, during which Felton and a bunch of Loss of life Eaters — basically the Wizarding World equal of Nazis — are following Alan, aka Professor Severus Snape, by means of Hogwarts.
Alan was carrying an extended cloak throughout the scene, and gave Tom a extreme warning earlier than a take.
“Finally I used to be advised in no unsure phrases by Alan Rickman, ‘Don’t step on my fucking cloak,’” Tom recounted in an Instagram video. (The precise expletive is bleeped out within the video.) “I form of giggled. The Loss of life Eaters and I checked out one another and thought, ‘Is he joking?’ It rapidly grew to become obvious: He’s positively not joking.”
The state of affairs acquired much more riddikulus, Tm stated, when director David Yates requested him to “stroll as shut as [he] can to Alan” within the scene. Felton stated the take went easily till they “acquired about midway by means of the Nice Corridor”… and Tom stepped on Alan’s gown.
Tom stated Alan “circled and gave me a glance you by no means, ever need to see.”
Contemplating that Alan’s Snape was a chilly authority determine with a pointy tongue and an intimidating leer, it’s arduous to not really feel for Felton, who was only a child on the time.
However Tom stated in his video he understood why Alan could be upset.
“You’ve got to keep in mind his cloak’s hooked up round his neck — I almost killed the poor man!” he stated.
Fortunately, within the subsequent take Tom stated “another person” unintentionally stomped on Snape’s cape.
“That type of took the warmth away from me,” Tom quipped. “However I’ll always remember these phrases: ‘Don’t step on my fucking cloak.’”
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Felton shared the story to advertise his new memoir, “Past the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Rising Up a Wizard.” However he’s advised the story earlier than, chatting with a a lot smaller viewers on the 2019 London Movie & Comedian Con.
In a Q&A with followers there, Tom expressed affection for Rickman, who died in 2016. However he admitted Alan was additionally the particular person on set he was “scared most of,” as a result of “he stays in character just about the entire time.”
“I keep in mind, there was as soon as we have been evening taking pictures, and he’s simply standing there, ominously. And ultimately I plucked up the braveness to say ‘Are you all proper, Alan?’” Tom stated. “And he simply turned, ever so slowly, and simply ― ‘I’ve peaked.’”
Tom stated that he remembered “not laughing on the time.”
“After which I realised it later: He was a really humorous man.”
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