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Emma Thompson said the late Alan Rickman could be “terrifying” – but when he was funny he was “hilarious”. The Oscar-winning actress, 63, worked alongside Rickman throughout his career, including playing his wife in the romantic comedy Love Actually. A collection of the Harry Potter star’s diaries have been published following his death in 2016 aged 69, giving readers an intimate look at his life and career.

Wilson Chapman editorAs the title character of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Lesley Manville charms nearly everyone she encounters: homeless men on the streets of Paris, the heads of the Dior fashion house (including Christian Dior himself), models, dressmakers and racehorse track operators.

Carson Burton Henry Holt publishers has announced it will be releasing “Madly Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” a collection of Rickman’s handwritten diaries, on October 18.Rickman wrote his diaries with the intention of future publication, and by the time of his death in 2016, they totaled 27 volumes. Now, his collection has been edited into a single volume. The diaries paint a deep portrait of a renowned actor, a political activist, an avid traveler and a devoted friend.Starting in the early ’90s and kept for the rest of his life, the diaries offer new insight into the mind of the man.

Harry Potter actor, who died aged 69 in 2016, began writing his diaries by hand in the early 1990s, always with the intention that they would one day be published.Now, his dream is coming true, as 27 volumes of his ‘witty, gossipy and utterly candid’ inner thoughts will be published as one book, The Diaries Of Alan Rickman.Publishing house Canongate has acquired the rights to the diaries, with Scottish Review of Books editor Alan Taylor set to edit the book.Rickman’s widow Rima Horton said she was ‘delighted’ by the news, saying: ‘The diaries reveal not just Alan Rickman the actor, but the real Alan – his sense of humour, his sharp observation, his craftsmanship and his devotion to the arts.’Speaking to the Guardian, Taylor said that the