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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.

Adrian Hodges

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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Being Concept Die Friend Great Loyal Point Subject
And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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Ability Actor Big Fun Material Movement Need Respond Sense Thing
Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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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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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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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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Able Action Like Really Sound Straightforward
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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Auditioning Chemistry Fair Few Going Judgement People Room Thinking Together Work
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 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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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