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.
ADRIAN HODGESAnd we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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.
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He’s not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he’s absolutely right.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.
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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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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 think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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 book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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But you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It’s a very big thing.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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