You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
ADRIAN HODGESIt’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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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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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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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 book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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