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Alan Rickman facts:

• Failed his California driving test at one point for “driving too cautiously through a green light”
  - Aww too cute
• Auditioned for Chris Barrie’s character Rimmer in “Red Dwarf” (1988)
  - I could definitely see that!
• When he was a child, he had a speech disability: his lower jaw was very tight, causing his words to be indistinctive and muffled. He still has a slight speech impediment, it is the tight lower jaw which gives him his distinctive drawl.
  - This makes me feel a lot better about the ‘do you have an accent?’ questions I get from new people I meet. No, I don’t have an accent, (other than ‘my mother was an English teacher’ regular Australian), I’m just secretly incredibly shy and  since I was a child I speak with marbles in my mouth whilst trying to appear cheery.

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