It’s six years to the day since the death of Alan Rickman, a man known to most1 as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films but whose finest, most iconic role was also his first: as the villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard, 34 long years ago. In 2011, he wrote the following letter of advice to his 16-year-old self. It fe…
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