In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
ADRIAN HODGESRichelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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