Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
ADRIAN HODGESYou 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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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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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 want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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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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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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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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