Props to Alan Rickman!

Fnord · Post by **Fnord** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:02 am

Hey, guys!

Seems like I only end up posting to this board once every couple of months anymore, but I'm still around - lurking... haven't (re)played the BG's in ages, but I still can't pull myself away from the Banshee. The community is just too awesome.

At any rate, it occured to me that in all the time this board has been around, I can't remember seeing a single thread dedicated to my all-time favorite voice actor: Mr. Alan Rickman. For those of you who don't know, he does the voice of Irenicus in BG2. His voice work pretty much made the character for me, and I can't imagine Irenicus without it.

Alan's voice is actually very prominent in all kinds of media nowadays. He did the voice of Morpheus in Fallout 2, all kinds of voice work for various cartoons, and most recently, the ominous Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films.

What can I say? He's the man. Irenicus loses 50 coolness points without that voice.

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:16 am

Alan Rickman is indeed a very fine actor...but he doesn't do Irenicus' voice. Can't remember the name of the guy who does at the moment...he plays the Evil Genius in Time Bandits amongst other things.

Edit: just googled and his name is David Warner who as you said did a voice in FallOut and Descent (another Interplay game I think).

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:30 am

Kopywrite beat me to it. David Warner is in fact a client of a Hollywood agent I know, and a damn fine actor who wants to do "legitimate theater" with an accent on the likes of Shakespeare. He seems to lament his lack of same a lot, but I can't say I regret his use in anything I've seen or played.

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:42 am

[QUOTE=fable]He seems to lament his lack of same a lot, but I can't say I regret his use in anything I've seen or played.[/QUOTE]
Ah, the working life of an actor...one day you're working with Sam Peckinpah, the next you're doing voices for 'Force Commander'. Hopefully we'll see him in the near future in something else with a bit more substance...he'd have been brilliant as Snape.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 9:05 am

Absolutely. I missed meeting him--my friend the agent (who, like me, also moonlighted in one particular MMORPG as a dungeonmaster) actually invited me over to visit while I was at a conference in LA a couple of years ago, but Warner got called away at the last moment. She thought I could raise his spirits by being one of the few Americans she's met who has genuinely read, seen and enjoyed the plays of Sheridan, Jonson, Shakespeare, and the rest of that lot. Like the late Alec Guinness, he has a vision of Americans as overpaid adoloescents who never deal with reality.

Fnord · Post by **Fnord** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:18 am

Er... props to David Warner, then! Figures that I'd dedicate a thread to the wrong guy. Dur.

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:30 am

So what? Alan Rickman is one of the GREATS! If they ever decide to make a BG movie, he'll be the only one qualified to portray Edwin. I love Alan Rickman.
Let this be His Thread, no matter what. If anybody wants to mention wannabe's like Peckinpah or Shakespeare please go do so in another thread.