6. “The Three Musketeers” (2011)
“The first costume I saw for Milady was pants, and immediately I went, ‘Eh.’ We’ve seen this — of course, a woman in a period piece who fights, she’s got to wear pants. So I went to the library and got a bunch of art books and looked at Dutch art, because it’s so strong and so graphic. I thought, I want to see this woman come alive from a painting, to pull out a sword and kill people. I don’t want to see her change into pants. I want to see this woman in court with her beautiful dress, how much more constrained she is by it — that she could be a warrior wearing this outfit made her even stronger.”
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