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.
ADRIAN HODGESI think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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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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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 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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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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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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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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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