Alan Rickman & Ian Dempsey — Interview extract (2015)
The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show
This extract is taken from a 2015 interview on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show, accessed via a YouTube recording. Ian Dempsey briefly refers to Alan Rickman’s long-term partner, Rima Horton… As some users have noted, that earlier remark had remained somewhat open-ended, and is here revisited in a brief exchange within the interview.
🎧 Extract
Ian Dempsey“…your long-term partner, Rima — am I pronouncing Rima’s name correctly?” Alan Rickman: “You are… what question is it?"(a soft, slightly hesitant laugh) Ian Dempsey: “I’m just going to ask, and you can say ‘I don’t want to talk about this’. At one stage you said she’s ‘tolerant — incredibly tolerant, unbelievably tolerant, possibly a candidate for sainthood’...So how tolerant is she? I mean, how tolerant does she need to be?? Are you a wild boy??” Alan Rickman: “No… I ...I mean—”(as if about to interject and Ian chuckles knowingly)“Anybody who shares a life with an actor has a lot to put up with..I think.. we’ll leave it at that. She is also remarkably intelligent — rather than just tolerant.” Ian Dempsey : “All right, okay…”
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Sources: YouTube (interview audio) [link] · alanrickman.ru (fan archive images and partial transcript reference) [link]
Transcript note: Extract transcribed from YouTube subtitles. Automated captions may be imperfect.
Additional reference: alanrickman.ru provides a fan transcript of the full interview in Russian [link] (accessed via machine translation for reference). The version is partially complete and does not include the segment regarding Rima Horton present in this extract.