On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
ADRIAN HODGESThe 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 think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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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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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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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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 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 want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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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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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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