Some of the biggest highlights of his career were when Alan Rickman was causing problems for the hero of the story, but according to Emma Thompson, he wasn’t particularly a fan of playing the villain. In an interview with GQ, Thompson recalled sharing the screen with her late friend, who played Colonel Brandon in the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility, and how thrilled he was to be the big bad for a change.
"Alan Rickman, God rest him, he was so happy to be playing someone heroic and nice,” she explained. "Because he was so fed up with people wanting him to be the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
