Note: Ralph Fiennes attended Chelsea School of Art & Design in early 1980's. Alan Rickman went to Chelsea School of Art 1965-1968. Alan Rickman goes on to Royal College of Art.
Source: Youtube video "The Untold Story of Alan Rickman's Rise to Fame" 4:54 mark
He said that he had known actors and friends whose lives and careers had been badly affected by facial injury and disease. He understood how profoundly a facial condition can affect speech, eating, appearance, employment, confidence and social life.
The Alan Rickman Professorship of Facial Surgery campaign was launched to help surgeons research better ways to treat patients with Head and Neck Cancer, Facial Injury and Disfigurement.
The fundraising campaign is still trying to reach the £5 million endowment needed to make the professorship permanent. The current campaign reports £78,504 raised.
Sir Ian McKellen recalls "On my first day before the camera, he didn’t like the patronising, bullying tone of a note which the director gave me. Alan, seeing I was a little crestfallen, delivered a quiet, concise resumé of my career and loudly demanded that the director up his game." (The Guardian, 15 Jan 2016)
Actors included Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ralph Fiennes, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Alan Rickman and Sir Lawrence Olivier, who spoke in support to save the site.
The result: the office block was redesigned to preserve the site to allow it to be fully excavated in the future.
Youtube video link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qRR6CHk1qU)