Alan Rickman as an angel smiling while Kevin Smith is with Jason Mewes in Dogma
Kevin Smith spoke about his friendship with the late actor Alan Rickman after making Dogma, which was Smith's fourth film. In the 1999 movie, Rickman played an angel named Metatron, who helped guide Bethany Sloane to stop the fallen angels Bartleby and Loki . The film also starred Chris Rock and Salma Hayek, as well as Jason Mewes and Smith as Jay and Silent Bob.
Smith also talked about how he became friends with Rickman. He shared that until Rickman died in 2016, he thought that the actor was just being polite to him because they worked together. The director shared how whenever he was in England for a live show, Rickman would attend. Read his comment below:
One of my favorite moments being on the set of Dogma, that church in Pittsburgh, and I looked over on the step of the church, and there's Alan Rickman sitting next to Jason Mewes, and they are engaged in the most intense conversation. And I remember thinking,"What the f--k could these two possibly have to say to each other?" But Rickman was genuinely interested in Jason, he was always just like,"He's a true American icon.
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