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.
ADRIAN HODGESWhen 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 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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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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 concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
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And we make quite a big thing about that. I won’t give too much away.
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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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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