"Alan was my best friend, my brother and my everything. I don't stop thinking about him. For me, there's no replacement; I just have a void. If I could speak to him I'd say: Come back, because I can't really bear being without you. We saw each other or spoke every day since 1980. I was a third party in the marriage, but Rima was never jealous."
"I did everything for Alan; if I could make him laugh that was like winning an Oscar. He steered my career for the first 30 years and I think I'd be doing much better now if he was still around. I don't have anybody like that I can trust. Nobody was a better critic of your acting. He was a genius who could see into the heart of a performance and know instinctively what about the person was getting in the way. He could see your ego and wanted to edit it."
Ruby Wax recalls an intense, decades-long friendship with Alan Rickman, describing him as her best friend, brother and everything and feeling an irreparable void after his death. They maintained daily contact from 1980, lived together early in their careers and shared a mischievous sense of humour, even involving a pet tortoise in shows. Rickman guided Wax's career for thirty years, acting as a rigorous critic who exposed ego and edited performances with sometimes cruel precision. He taught her comic restraint, delivered campy line readings, and helped shape her stage work and comedic delivery.
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