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Alan Rickman Trivia
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- Is the second of four children in his family. He has an older brother, a younger brother and a younger sister.
- Although a highly successful film actor, he has frequently passed up film offers to return to the theater. (A place and activity which he calls "magical" and his "first love".)
- For the shot where Hans Gruber falls from the top of the building in Die Hard (1988), was actually dropped by a stuntman from a 20-foot high model onto an air bag. To get a genuine surprised look, the stunt man dropped him on the count of two instead of three.
- Was the original voice of Leonardo Leonardo in the 2000 cartoon based on Kevin Smith's film Clerks. (1994), but was replaced by Alec Baldwin, courtesy of ABC.
- When he was a child, he had a speech disability: his lower jaw was very tight, causing his words to be indistinctive and muffled.
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