Kate Winslet gets emotional as she pays tribute to the late Alan Rickman, at the London Critics’ Circle Awards.
An emotional Winslet (40), said:
“If you’ll forgive me, it was an awful week and Alan [Rickman] died.
I wonder if you’ll all stand up, and clap.
Thank you so much for doing that.
It’s a funny time to be nominated for things and accepting prizes when people as great as him have left us, but I don’t want to leave you on a sad note, so I’m going to tell a funny story about Al if I can.
When I worked with him when I was only 19 years old I was absolutely terrified on day one, and I remember him looking at me and I remember feeling so small. Smaller than I’d ever felt before in my life.
After a few weeks of getting to know him and realising just how wonderful and warm he really was, I was standing there in my costume on Sense and Sensibility and my knickers had gone up my bum.
When you’re trying to flick your knickers out of your arse and you’re wearing a corset, it’s actually quite tricky. So, I was sort of yanking at my pants and Emma Thompson was right there, and Al just said “ah, feminine mystique strikes again!”
Alan Rickman died on 14th January 2016 aged 69.
