Kate Winslet reveals the brilliant way Alan Rickman would spend his Harry Potter earnings

One thing the late Alan Rickman’s friends paid tribute to after his death in January last year was the actor’s generosity and friendship.

And as the first anniversary of his death approaches, Kate Winslet has revealed one of the brilliant ways he would find to spend the money he made making the Harry Potter movies.

“If there was one word I could use to really describe Al, it would be kind,” she writes in a piece for Entertainment Weekly.

“He was so kind. Whenever Al would go out to supper and anyone else would try and pay, he would somehow have phoned ahead or slipped his credit card ahead of the meal so no one even got a look at the check.

“He’d just say, ‘I’ve got two words for you: Harry Potter.’ And he became known for doing that.”

How much he was paid for playing Hogwarts professor Severus Snape in the movies is not known, but it sounds like it was enough to treat who he wanted, when he wanted.

It also emerged after his death that he’d left £100,000 to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the charities Sponsored Arts for Education, Saving Faces, and the International Performers Aid Trust.

Winslet, who also called Rickman ‘a great big softy’, starred in the 1995 adaptation of ‘Sense and Sensibility’ with Rickman, as well as the 2014 movie ‘A Little Chaos’.

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