mmmmm…..Alan Rickman

The other day I had lunch with my husband, girlfriends and my dad who was visiting from out of town; during the normal course of girly chit-chatting Alan Rickman’s name came up. Immediately my mind went racing back to the first time I saw him and went a’swooning.

It was in 1995 and the movie was a production of Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensibility, a story I know well and love. Hugh Grant should have been the budding “big name” star in it at the time but it was Rickman’s performance as Colonel Christopher Brandon that stole the show-and my heart. I was so in love. Colonel Brandon was so rough and tumble, dark and domineering, stern and severe-and yet, there was some sort of quiet desperation in Colonel Brandon that called out to me. It didn’t happen in the book, only in the movie. Rickman made the difference. It was amazing to see how strong and utterly weak a man can be at the same time and Rickman pulled it off so masterfully. It was a dreamy flashback, and just about made me faint away in my salad. Read More→