The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
ADRIAN HODGESBeing able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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 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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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it’s almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn’t work.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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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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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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.
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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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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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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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