Eddie Izzard: Alan Rickman told me a major ‘Harry Potter’ spoiler

Alan Rickman allegedly revealed an enormous "Harry Potter" plot twist whereas having dinner with a pal in 2003.
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Late actor Alan Rickman apparently spilled the beans a few main “Harry Potter” plot twist.

Comic Eddie Izzard recalled how the pair have been having dinner when Rickman supposedly revealed the spoiler.

“Alan had began taking part in Professor Snape from the Harry Potter movies,” Izzard instructed the Guardian. “He portrayed him with an intense and brittle spirit. I requested if Snape continued in future tales.

“ ‘Properly,’ he stated, ‘the newest e book has simply come out, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ then he quietly added: ‘And I — I'm the Half-Blood Prince,’ ” she stated.

Izzard remembered the dinner happening in 2003 however “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was launched in 2005.

Alan Rickman portrayed professor Severus Snape within the “Harry Potter” franchise.

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Rickman, who died in 2016 attributable to pancreatic most cancers, was effectively know for his portrayal of the slimy potions professor Severus Snape within the “Harry Potter” franchise in addition to Hans Gruber in 1988’s “Die Exhausting.”

Just lately, it was introduced that the 69-year-old actor’s non-public journals can be revealed in an upcoming e book known as “Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” which is out on Oct. 4.

The journals revealed that he wished to stop the “Harry Potter” motion pictures.

Comic Eddie Izzard instructed the Guardian that the pair have been having dinner when Rickman instructed her the plot twist.

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The late actor’s non-public journals are going to be revealed in an upcoming e book known as “Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” which is out on Oct. 4. 

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“Speaking to [agent] Paul Lyon-Maris about HP exit, which he thinks will occur. However right here we're within the project-collision space once more. Reiterating no extra HP. They don’t need to hear it,” reads an entry from 2004.

The “Love Truly” star later penned his ideas on the sequence conclusion and the way it made him really feel.

“I've completed studying the final Harry Potter e book,” a July 2007 entry stated. “Snape dies heroically, Potter describes him to his youngsters as one of many bravest males he ever knew and calls his son Albus Severus.

“This was a real ceremony of passage. One small piece of knowledge from [JK] Rowling seven years in the past – Snape beloved Lily – gave me a cliff edge to hold on to,” Rickman added.