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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.

Adrian Hodges

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 thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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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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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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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 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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Explorer Genre Great Really Same Sometimes Thriller
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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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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Adventure Book Genre Real Reinvention
Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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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 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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