Jacob Shymanski

I wish it was Alan Rickman.

Alan Rickman was unhinged, but held back and reserved and had some poise behind it.

Riz Ahmed's Snape feels just completely out there and unhinged.

And like, he's looking in hysterics like half the time.

It's really off-putting.

And it's one of those performances that stands out for being kind of poor.

But again, I don't blame him.

You're filling in big shoes.

Nobody's got big feet that big.

There's also direction that goes into it too.

It's not all up to him.

There's a team of people coming up with all of this.

Which, by the way, Audible produced these behind-the-scenes little documentaries that they put up on YouTube.

I think it's a two-parter.

They're pretty long too, where they sort of show how this was made.

Lots of interviews, all the different actors.

It's like 90% platitudes with like 10% interesting.

One of the interesting things that I learned is that they didn't use like regular condenser mics on a boom arm.

So the actors aren't sitting down.

They're wearing headset mics and they're standing up and...