Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
ADRIAN HODGESIt’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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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 always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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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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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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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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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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