He’s not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he’s absolutely right.
ADRIAN HODGESRichelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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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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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 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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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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 book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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