Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
ADRIAN HODGESThe 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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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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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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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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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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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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