[American Entertainment] Bright life

Alan Rickman is one of the most versatile stage actors and film and television actors in the UK. He has contributed outstanding performances in films such as "Sense and Sensibility", "Die Hard" and "True Love Actually". In terms of drama, Dangerous Liaisons, which he starred in, was performed from the West End of London to Broadway in New York, and was widely praised by film critics and theater fans.

In addition to being a film and television actor and stage actor, he has also acted in musicals and dubbed movies. In recent years, he has tried to direct plays. Last year, in 2005, he directed a play at the Royal Court Theater in London "My Name Is Rachel Curley" -- based on the letters and texts of Rachel Curley, a 23-year-old American girl who was crushed to death by an Israeli armed bulldozer -- was a fan choice Award for Best Director.

This play was staged in London's West End this summer. Donald took Grace to watch the play, and after the curtain ended, he invited Rickman to have afternoon tea at the afternoon tea restaurant near the theater.

Compared with Donald and Grace's meticulous dressing, Rickman's dressing is much more casual. He is 60 years old this year, but years and years of acting career have brought him an incomparable temperament of a young man, as well as a restrained poetic flavor , so that he still looks pleasing to the eye.

Donald and Rickman have known each other for many years, and Donald had already explained his intention to Rickman before that.

"I'm curious," Rickman said in his uniquely elegant and deep voice after getting to know each other, "how a girl like you who is obsessed with her studies and has never had any interest in the show business can become an actress overnight. Are you interested in acting?"

Old Mr. Donald, who often talked about his granddaughter with his old friends in private, pretended to be stupid and lowered his head to drink tea from a bone china teacup when his granddaughter gave him a clear look.

Grace looked away, met Rickman's deep eyes, and answered honestly: "It's a new thing for me, and it won't make me feel bored."

Rickman raised his eyebrows: "You know, young girl? In my opinion, you are not interested in acting itself, you are just interested in such a major, just like you were interested in acting after mathematics. interested in psychology."

I have to say that Rickman's vision is vicious, and he is right in his words. For now, Grace really views acting in this way.Donald is also aware of this, and before Grace speaks, he said earnestly: "Can all interests be cultivated, and besides, Grace has not really appreciated the power of acting itself that can make people stick to it for a lifetime. The charm that infects audiences from generation to generation. This is also the most essential reason why I am looking for you, Alan, my old friend, your love and persistence in drama for decades, it is really impossible not to move people."

Rickman's love and persistence in drama began when he was still in elementary school. Although people remember him more now as a film and television actor, film actor is only his side job, and what he has always pursued has always been drama.So Donald's words really touched his heart, but he accepted the praise of his old friend, and Rickman, who has always been strict in the art he pursued, would not let it go. He snorted softly: "Your children don't necessarily think so—"

Facing the earnest eyes of his old friend, he finally softened his tone, "Fine, a girl who pursues new things, since you want to apply for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then, what do you think are your specialties in this area that will make you Among the many candidates who are interested in acting itself and have acting experience?"

"You are about 60 years old, and you are still unmarried, but you have a partner, whom you have known since you were a teenager, and you have been together until now, and you have no children. From this point, and your long-term persistence in your career, it shows that you are a stubborn man "Grace looked at Rickman and said, her bright eyes looked at him, but she quickly moved away, "Although I value etiquette, I don't care much about appearance. I didn't eat lunch, and I ate breakfast. French fries, toast, fried eggs, and black coffee. As you walk here from the theater, a car passes you and its wheels run over a shallow puddle, splashing water onto your trousers and shoes Come on, you just wiped the cement spots on your shoes."

After finishing such a series of words, Grace's blue eyes returned to Rickman's face, and her tone became sincere: "Does keen observation count?"

This can't just be described as 'sharp', okay?

Rickman couldn't control his surprised expression, he couldn't help but look at Donald.

Mr. Donald, as early as when his granddaughter started acting as an old friend, he continued to drink tea with his teacup and bowed his head in a "nothing to do with yourself" attitude, and he just turned a blind eye to the penetrating gaze delivered by his old friend.

Rickman: "..."

"If you think this is not objective, then I can play a passerby at will—" Grace looked out the window casually, and when her eyes touched a place, her expression froze in an instant.She jumped up from her seat, which made a screeching sound as it slid across the floor, and Donald was amazed: "Grace, honey, are you all right?"

"What...?" Grace took half a beat to react, "Oh, I'm fine."

She is absolutely absent-minded and inappropriate, how does she seem to be okay?What's more, it is even more unusual for these two situations to appear in Grace, who has always been calm and reserved.Donald didn't have a chance to ask anything, because the next moment Grace quickly left the afternoon tea restaurant, and ran in one direction after leaving the door. Donald turned his head and asked his old friend, "What happened just now?"

Rickman glared at him: "I still want to ask you what's going on."

Looking around, Donald murmured, "What's wrong with Grace?"

Rickman snorted heavily from his nose, pretending to be stupid for his old friend.

What did Grace see that made her lose her composure?This happened once more than a month ago, and that time she saw Benedict who had almost the same appearance as her second brother Sherlock Holmes.Now, this situation is happening again, but the key figure has changed from Sherlock to Mycroft, the British government.

In that instant, many things came back, memories that haunted Grace until now.Mycroft taught her to identify lilacs in the garden of the ancestral house, and told her the Latin name of lilac; McCoff took her and Sherlock, in the candy store, and taught her and Sherlock to act as pedestrians on the road; In the hospital, after the others left, Mycroft returned to the ward and stood in front of the hospital bed and held her hand. The hand gradually lost its temperature, and then McCoff, who was called the 'Iceman', hung down in pain. Head, the tears that gushed out blurred his vision, he fell against the wall, but he stopped crying, his tears seemed to be only the ones that just flowed out, and they couldn't flow out anymore.He lost his dearest sister, and warned himself that life will eventually have strength, but people's hearts have long been broken, and it's useless to talk, that's what he told Sherlock before...

Grace didn't understand why she saw that scene after death, the tears from her fatherly brother seemed to burn her soul, and now it's making her head hot, her body is ahead of her reason, and she doesn't care Regardless of running out of the afternoon tea restaurant, and without analyzing other feasible plans, or analyzing that the passers-by she witnessed were just like Benedict, but only looked like McCoff, she chose the most The original plan was to chase the opponent all the way, with only one thought in mind: to catch up with him.

Anything that stands in front of her is an obstacle.

Grace clearly felt that she had bumped into someone, and the pain on the right side of the collision was transmitted to the cerebral cortex. Grace began to gradually regain her senses, but continued to chase without stopping.

At the next intersection, Grace didn't see her target in sight.She looked around in a daze, and reality forced her to calm down completely.The nearby street map, including traffic lights, road conditions, and buildings, thankfully finally appeared in her mind. It didn't take two seconds for her to deduce the whereabouts of her target person.

When Grace was about to cross a traffic light or a green intersection, someone grabbed her wrist, accompanied by some angry words from the other party: "Ma'am, do you know what you are doing? The behavior just now is very serious." Dangerous." Because the moment Grace's wrist was grasped, a car sped past, and at this moment, the noise on the street was clearly transmitted to her mind along with the voice of the man grasping her wrist .

At the same time, her second brother's voice was full of disgust, "Grace, move your little head, think carefully, is he that fat man?"The answer is already on your lips, isn't it?Stop being a fool! '

'I do not want to know. '

'I want to be a fool. '

'I miss you so much. '

Tears just broke through the perennial cold ice in the eyes and gushed out.

This was the first time Tom Hiddleston saw Grace Green, they ran head-on, he picked up her dropped rose brooch and ran after her, pulling her back from the traffic-heavy intersection to the pavement, witnessing Her eyes turned from shining like stars to barren like dry fields, and then to shedding crystal tears... This development made Tom feel absurd, but also had an unspeakable dream.