Tom Felton reminisced this week a few time when Alan Rickman was an entire accio-hole to him — in probably the most loving approach attainable.
The Harry Potter star, who performed the entitled Draco Malfoy within the movie franchise, shared a narrative in regards to the late Die Onerous actor wherein 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, wherein Felton and a gaggle of Demise Eaters — basically the Wizarding World equal of Nazis — are following Alan, aka Professor Severus Snape, via Hogwarts.
Alan was sporting an extended cloak throughout the scene, and gave Tom a extreme warning earlier than a take.
“Finally I used to be instructed 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 Demise Eaters and I checked out one another and thought, ‘Is he joking?’ It shortly grew to become obvious: He’s positively not joking.”
The state of affairs received 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 “received about midway via the Nice Corridor”… and Tom stepped on Alan’s gown.
Tom stated Alan “circled and gave me a glance you by no means, ever wish to see.”
Contemplating that Alan’s Snape was a chilly authority determine with a pointy tongue and an intimidating leer, it’s laborious 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 to remember 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” by accident 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 instructed 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 bear in mind, there was as soon as we have been evening capturing, 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.”
