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.
ADRIAN HODGESRichelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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In 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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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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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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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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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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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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