Juliet Stevenson has spoken about her late friend Alan Rickman revealing that she feels his presence every day.
Stevenson, who starred opposite Rickman, in the 1991 film Truly, Madly, Deeply, said he "was always telling me how to live".
Rickman died in 2016 aged 69, following a battle with cancer.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph the 63-year-old actress said: "He was always telling me how to live and what not to do, how to behave better.
"It's still the case absolutely that, all the time, he is on my shoulder."
Stevenson said she was put off Hollywood by the fact that even the most talented stars lasted only a few years.
"I didn't feel that world was benign, and I'm really industryphobic," she said.
"I am disastrous as a schmoozer. It almost makes me panicky. I have to be dragged to awards dos and red-carpet dos.
"I wasn't good at that thing you have to do out there, of going into offices and wowing people. I'm not beautiful, I'm not that sort of person.
"You'd look around and think 'Everybody's temporary'.
"Even the most brilliant actors there can last for just five years, but in the UK you can have a career that goes from 26 to 96, if you're careful and you have a gift."
