Tom Felton reminisced this week a few time when Alan Rickman was a whole accio-hole to him — in probably the most loving means doable.
The Harry Potter star, who performed the entitled Draco Malfoy within the movie franchise, shared a narrative in regards to the late Die Exhausting 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 Dying Eaters — basically the Wizarding World equal of Nazis — are following Alan, aka Professor Severus Snape, by Hogwarts.
Alan was sporting a protracted cloak throughout the scene, and gave Tom a extreme warning earlier than a take.
“Ultimately 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 kind of giggled. The Dying Eaters and I checked out one another and thought, ‘Is he joking?’ It rapidly turned obvious: He’s positively not joking.”
The state of affairs obtained much more riddikulus, Tm mentioned, when director David Yates requested him to “stroll as shut as [he] can to Alan” within the scene. Felton mentioned the take went easily till they “obtained about midway by the Nice Corridor”… and Tom stepped on Alan’s gown.
Tom mentioned 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 laborious to not really feel for Felton, who was only a child on the time.
However Tom mentioned in his video he understood why Alan can be upset.
“You could have to remember his cloak’s connected round his neck — I almost killed the poor man!” he mentioned.
Fortunately, within the subsequent take Tom mentioned “another person” by chance stomped on Snape’s cape.
“That sort of took the warmth away from me,” Tom quipped. “However I’ll always remember these phrases: ‘Don’t step on my fucking cloak.’”
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, talking to 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 night time capturing, and he’s simply standing there, ominously. And ultimately I plucked up the braveness to say ‘Are you all proper, Alan?’” Tom mentioned. “And he simply turned, ever so slowly, and simply ― ‘I’ve peaked.’”
Tom mentioned that he remembered “not laughing on the time.”
“After which I realised it later: He was a really humorous man.”