He’s not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he’s absolutely right.
ADRIAN HODGESThe 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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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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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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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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 think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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