Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
ADRIAN HODGESBeing 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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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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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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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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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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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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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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