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"The Musketeers launched big last Sunday - but tomorrow night, our heroes will face a foe even more intimidating than Mr Selfridge - dastardly new villain Vadim, played by Jason Flemyng. Digital Spy got on the phone to Jason for a frank chat about The Musketeers, why he&amp;#039;s a lucky charm for Doctor Who actors and why he won&amp;#039;t talk about Star Wars.  The Musketeers was devised by Adrian Hodges, who you previously worked with on Primeval... &amp;quot;Yeah, he&amp;#039;s a lovely guy - we&amp;#039;ve always got on really well. When I left Primeval, it was my choice - the contract came up [so I left, but] I went back and did one episode to get me out of the show. &amp;quot;It was something that I was proud of but I missed doing my movies. I think that&amp;#039;s really where my heart lies - not jobs that go on for years and years. I&amp;#039;m too nomadic to do that. &amp;quot;Adrian was really sweet about it, &amp;#039;cos it left him in the lurch a little bit. Obviously he didn&amp;#039;t have the hump that badly &amp;#039;cos he campaigned to get me onto The Musketeers, which I loved. Absolutely loved.&amp;quot;  You don&amp;#039;t do a lot of television - do you get offered many TV roles? &amp;quot;No, not really. Given the choice, I&amp;#039;d rather do a movie than a TV show just because that&amp;#039;s my passion. But as everyone&amp;#039;s aware, television is getting better and better and film scripts are getting worse and worse! I think we&amp;#039;re just a couple of years behind America where all the best drama [is happening]. &amp;quot;Artistically the writers and directors are given much more freedom to do their own thing in TV - hence [David] Fincher working almost exclusively for Netflix now - he hasn&amp;#039;t made a movie since Dragon Tattoo and I think that speaks volumes about the state of the American industry and I think the British industry&amp;#039;s just behind it. &amp;quot;If a TV script&amp;#039;s really good, I&amp;#039;m up for it. I&amp;#039;m not snobby about it at all. I&amp;#039;ve just got this thing [with movies]\u2026 I&amp;#039;m not hugely brilliant but I&amp;#039;m prolific. I&amp;#039;m trying to hit 100 movies - that&amp;#039;s my stupid, childish goal.&amp;quot; How many are you on right now? &amp;quot;92 - I should be able to do it before my legs give out. Once I hit 100, it means I got away with it 100 times.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ll be approaching Christopher Lee level... &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s on 272 - don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m not counting!&amp;quot;  How would you describe your Musketeers character Vadim? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a real proper old-school villain. It was great fun. I don&amp;#039;t have a moustache\u2026 well, it&amp;#039;s an invisible one that I&amp;#039;m allowed to tweak occasionally! I loved it and all the boys I just fell in love with. Luke Pasqualino is amazing - I&amp;#039;m meant to be his enemy but I didn&amp;#039;t know whether to smack him in the face or kiss him on the lips.&amp;quot; Were you a fan of any previous Musketeers adaptations, like the 1970s films? &amp;quot;I loved them all. Roy Kinnear was one of my favourite actors of all time and he tragically died on a Musketeers shoot. But Michael York, Oliver Reed\u2026 that was a cracker. &amp;quot;Ol&amp;#039; Nick Moran did one recently with Orlando [Bloom] - the big Hollywood one which died a death. I think our one pisses on that, to be honest. I think our one&amp;#039;s great.&amp;quot; You don&amp;#039;t share any scenes with Peter Capaldi, but did you get to meet him on set? &amp;quot;Yeah! I&amp;#039;ve got a really good little exclusive for you. When I was doing Quatermass Experiment live with David Tennant, we sang a song that went, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s crazy but it&amp;#039;s true - Tennant&amp;#039;s playing Doctor Who!&amp;#039; and that was the day he got the Doctor Who gig. The day that Capaldi got the Doctor Who gig... there I was again on-set. The Doctors always get their gigs when they&amp;#039;re with Flem!&amp;quot;  Of course, your father Gordon Flemyng directed Peter Cushing in the two 1960s Dalek movies... &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the other Doctor Who story I&amp;#039;ve got to tell you - when [Christopher] Eccleston got Doctor Who, I phoned Wales immediately and said, &amp;#039;Listen guys, I&amp;#039;ve got to speak to you about Doctor Who&amp;#039; and they&amp;#039;re like, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s cast\u2026 you can&amp;#039;t play Doctor Who&amp;#039; - I said, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m not interested in playing Doctor Who but I need to be the noise of the Dalek ship as it takes off.&amp;#039; &amp;quot;My father was the noise of the Dalek ship in 1966 movie Dr Who and the Daleks in technicolour so no-one else can do that noise except me. &amp;quot;They were like, &amp;#039;Um\u2026 the Daleks fly&amp;#039; and I went, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s the most f**king ridiculous thing I&amp;#039;ve ever heard&amp;#039; and I slammed the phone down. It&amp;#039;s nonsense. Unless they bring back the Dalek ship that takes off with the noise, then Jason Flemyng is not interested in Doctor Who in any way!&amp;quot; I have to ask you about Star Wars - you posted a picture online with your copy of an audition script... &amp;quot;Can we just say that it was a slight misjudgement on the Flemyng behalf? Put it this way - I won&amp;#039;t be spending next Christmas at the Lucas ranch. Some excrement definitely hit the electronic fan.&amp;quot; Did you enjoy reading the script? &amp;quot;No comment. You cannot get me to talk about Star Wars - I will literally be killed. I&amp;#039;ve learnt my lesson!&amp;quot; Jason Flemyng stars in The Musketeers tomorrow night (Sunday, January 26) at 9pm on BBC One. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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