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.
ADRIAN HODGESI 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 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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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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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.
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