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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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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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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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 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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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.
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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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