“I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.”

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.

And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.

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.

Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.

In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.

There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It’s fun, but it’s not simple fun.

They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.

Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.

It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.

On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene

I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.

You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization.

And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you’ve got to be careful and watch out.

Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.

If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.

If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy.

Someone who won’t constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That’s kind of guy I need.

Is that I get to constantly do different things, put on different hats, be different people, and mixing up the genre really lends itself to that.

To remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us.

I’m constantly scared. I’m constantly fearful of what’s to come and people don’t realize that.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it.