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.
ADRIAN HODGESYou’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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 want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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