Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
ADRIAN HODGESAnd we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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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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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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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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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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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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