You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
ADRIAN HODGESI always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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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 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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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