Guardian Editor Remembers Alan Rickman

Memories from News & Media editor in chief Katherine Viner.

The world is reeling from the loss of another titanic 69-year-old artist: Alan Rickman. Guardian News & Media editor in chief Katharine Viner begins her warm remembrance of the man, the artist and her friend with this cheeky lede. Which he would have loved:

My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.

It was March 2003 when Alan turned up at London’s Royal Court theatre, clutching an edition of the Guardian’s G2 section featuring the powerful last emails of Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed by a bulldozer in Gaza.

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