In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
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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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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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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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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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