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 HODGESIt’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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