The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
ADRIAN HODGESBut 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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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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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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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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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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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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