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It’s been 30 years sinceDie Hardswept into theaters and starBonnie Bedelia, has been reminiscing about her favorite memories during filming.
“When I think back toDie Hard, I think first of Alan Rickman,” Bedelia, 70, tellsPEOPLEof the late actor, who played infamous villain Hans Gruber. “I mostly hung out with Alan on the set and we lunched together every day in the Fox commissary.”
Bedelia admits that their friendship blossomed because Rickman was “not only a wonderful actor who I so admired and who was so brilliant as Hans Gruber, but also a lovely, gentle, and invariably interesting companion,” and also because Willis was otherwise occupied.
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“[Rickman] was who I actually hung out with because, if truth be told, Bruce had just metDemi Moore. So he was kind of distracted a little from me because she was there,” Bedelia reveals, laughing. (Willis and Moore were married for 12 years, from 1987 to 2000.)
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The actress harbors no ill feelings toward the star whatsoever, as she admits distraction is natural when someone is enamored.
“You know when romance is new and everything,” she says with a smile.
“Fans say things like, ‘I’ve watched you for years and have loved you in everything you’ve ever done,’” she says. “Which is gratifying to hear.”
“I still paint, portraits mostly,” she says. “I am currently writing my memoirs — mainly for my children. When I mentioned this to Jane Fonda she said, ‘Yes, of course, that’s why we do it — so we will not be judged so harshly.’ She couldn’t have been more right!”
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source: people.com
