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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.
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