The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
ADRIAN HODGESIn the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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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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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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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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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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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.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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