Tom Felton reminisced this week a few time when Alan Rickman was a whole accio-hole to him — in probably the most loving method attainable.
The “Harry Potter” star, who performed the entitled Draco Malfoy within the movie franchise, shared a narrative in regards to the late “Die Laborious” actor by which Rickman made Felton 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,” by which Felton and a bunch of Loss of life Eaters — basically the Wizarding World equal of Nazis — are following Rickman, aka Professor Severus Snape, by means of Hogwarts.
Rickman was carrying an extended cloak in the course of the scene, and gave Felton a extreme warning earlier than a take.
“Ultimately I used to be informed in no unsure phrases by Alan Rickman, ‘Don’t step on my fucking cloak,’” Felton recounted in an Instagram video posted Tuesday. (The precise expletive is bleeped out within the video.) “I form of giggled. The Loss of life Eaters and I checked out one another and thought, ‘Is he joking?’ It rapidly turned obvious: He’s undoubtedly not joking.”
The scenario obtained much more riddikulus, Felton 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 means of the Nice Corridor”… and Felton stepped on Rickman’s gown.
Felton mentioned Rickman “circled and gave me a glance you by no means, ever wish to see.”
Contemplating that Rickman’s Snape was a chilly authority determine with a pointy tongue and an intimidating leer, it’s arduous to not really feel for Felton, who was only a child on the time.
However Felton mentioned in his video he understood why Rickman could be upset.
“You’ve got to keep in mind his cloak’s connected round his neck — I practically killed the poor man!” he mentioned.
Fortunately, within the subsequent take Felton mentioned “another person” by accident stomped on Snape’s cape.
“That form of took the warmth away from me,” Felton 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 informed 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, Felton expressed affection for Rickman, who died in 2016. However he admitted Rickman was additionally the individual 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 finally I plucked up the braveness to say ‘Are you all proper, Alan?’” Felton mentioned. “And he simply turned, ever so slowly, and simply ― ‘I’ve peaked.’”
Felton mentioned that he remembered “not laughing on the time.”
“After which I spotted it later: He was a really humorous man.”