“There’s something very graceful, strong and feminine about it. I think it looks so cool,” Green says, adding that she is a big fan of Chinese martial arts films such as Hero (2002), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and House Of Flying Daggers (2004). “We were trying to find something particular about Milady – she fights with two weapons and there’s something a bit Asian about it. Milady has several memorable fight scenes, and Green trained with a stunt crew for months to learn sword-fighting as well as martial arts like aikido.

They have a beating heart rather than just being big strong men who fight.”Īnd the women, she adds, “are not just there in beautiful dresses”. “But there’s something more human about everybody in this version. Green says: “There have been so many adaptations, and these musketeers have beautiful values – honour, courage, friendship – and they’re real heroes. Written and directed by French film-maker Martin Bourboulon, The Three Musketeers films also add depth to the central male characters. She’s alone and doesn’t care about conventions,” says Green, who earned a Best Actress nomination at the Cesars – the French equivalent of the Oscars – for her role as an astronaut in the drama Proxima (2019). She’s very much ahead of her time, quite feminist, and not afraid of anything.

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