The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
ADRIAN HODGESRichelieu 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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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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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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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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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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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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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 think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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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 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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