And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.
ADRIAN HODGESI think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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 thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that.
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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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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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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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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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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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