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.
ADRIAN HODGESYou 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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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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