While promoting his upcoming feature
Nobel Son, actor Alan Rickman evades discussion on whether or not his character Severus Snape is 'bad' and
praises J.K. Rowling as a writer and storyteller:
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It just seems like you’re so well known here for the bad parts -- for Snape or the Sheriff of Nottingham.
ALAN RICKMAN: Is Snape bad?
Well, ultimately obviously not.
ALAN RICKMAN: I didn’t say anything.
But you don’t know that until the last book.
ALAN RICKMAN: So therefore you just said ‘bad’ like—
Well, he does not appear to be tremendously likable, at least through Harry’s eyes, for most of the time.
ALAN RICKMAN: So your point is? (giggles) No. Look, I don’t judge characters anyway for anything. I just get on and play them. And if you were sitting inside my skin, and I can’t sit inside yours or deny what you’re saying because that’s your perception. But if you were sitting in my skin, you’d look at the work you’ve done and go, ‘Well, wait a minute…. Look at all of those against those.’ And it’s just that some of them get a lot of publicity. That’s all.
The one thing they all have in common though is they’re all complex characters.
ALAN RICKMAN: I hope so. I hope they live through three dimensions. I resist the labeling, that’s all, because I think it’s too easy to do that to characters and stories. Wrap them up. I like it when stories are left open. That’s what I like about Jo Rowling as a storyteller, it’s full of possibilities.
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Alan Rickman talks Snape & J.K. Rowling 
Alan is about as arrogant as Mother Teresa! he's very blunt about what he says, but he thinks things through before he speaks, and doesn't go shoot off at the mouth before answering questions. It may come across as arrogance to some, but to me it comes across as a man who is very intelligent, has a dry, ascerbic sense of humor that not everyone can appreciate, and says what he means. Period.
