AR has read the books, well, at least DH!

[Lizzie Mae Lilly]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "wildirishrose01us" <wildirishrose at ...> wrote:
 
> > > 
> > > Q:  Are you looking forward to that without saying what it is?
> > > AR:  Well, the only thing that I'll say is that for the first time shooting those films, I know what I'm doing and why.
> > > 
> > > Q:  Have you read ahead?
> > > AR:  That's what I mean by that.
> > > 
> > > Q:  You've read the seventh book?
> > > AR:  That's what I mean by that [laughs].
> > 
> > > 
> > > Lizzy Mae
> >> 
> 
> I could be wrong, but I heard that JKR more or less had all 7 books plotted out when she wrote the SS, and Alan Rickman had been told pretty much the plot of all 7 books when the SS was filmed so he would know the reasons behind Snape.  I don't think it was book by book.  However, I could be very wrong about that.
> 
> I've come to appreciate Snape by the way Alan Rickman has portrayed him.  I really like Alan Rickman
> 
> Marianne
>

>From what he says in the interview I quoted above it doesn't sound like he knew the whole plot from the beginning.  I do know he took advantage of Jo's offer to talk to him about Snape, but from another interview after the publication of DH it doesn't appear that it was very detailed.  In this interview (I'll do my best to find it) AR says he asked Jo for one thing about Snape that he should know.  She told him that Snape loved Harry's mother.

Lizzie