英文本 愿你余生安好

At the beginning of filming, you were given your own chair with your character’s  name on the cloth backrest. These chairs would be with us for the duration of filming.  One day, Alan Rickman was sitting around with Helena Bonham Carter,  Helen McCrory, Jason Isaacs and Michael Gambon. Even by Harry Potter standards, that’s a pretty impressive group of heavyweights.

That’s the crème de la crème of the  British film world right there. They sat in their comfortable director’s chairs. I had a  much smaller fold-up chair, as when I started the films my feet would never have  touched the ground from one of the taller ones. Almost immediately, Alan stood up.  He walked over to one of the assistant directors, pointed in my direction and  demanded that I was given a proper director’s chair, so that I could sit at the same  height as the rest of them.

At first I wondered if it was a bit of a joke, but it soon  became clear that he was absolutely serious. “Alan, mate,” I said, “it’s fine, I’m  happy sitting on my shorter chair.” He wouldn’t take no for an answer. He didn’t kick  up a fuss, he wasn’t impolite, he just quietly insisted that I was brought a chair of the  same height as the others.  It was a small thing, but I’ll never forget that moment of kindness. Alan  wanted a younger cast member to be treated like an equal to these leading lights.

He  didn’t have to do it, but the fact that he did spoke volumes about the man he was.  I think about that moment with the director’s chair often, now that Alan has passed  away. And not only Alan, of course. Richard Harris, John Hurt, Helen McCrory… the  list of actors from the Harry Potter films who are no longer with us inevitably grows.  When I think of their passing, I find myself in purgatory because it’s only now that  I’ve reached adulthood that I’ve started to understand the effect that they had on me,  and how brilliant they were as examples.