You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.
ADRIAN HODGESThe thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn’t really go into, but it’s a great subject to look at.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you’ve got to be careful and watch out.
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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it’s not really fair to put people who are auditioning together in a room.
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I didn’t want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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