Actor Logan Lerman says he had a "surreal" experience playing D'Artagnan in the new film adaptation of "The Three Musketeers."
"D'Artangn is a cocky young swordsman at the beginning of the film," Lerman explained in an interview provided by the movie's studio, Summit Entertainment. "It's pretty surreal to actually be playing these characters ."
The film, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, is about of a young D'Artagnan, who travels to Paris to become a fighter sworn to protect the French monarchy. Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich), Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) and the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom), plan to engulf Europe in a war. The movie also stars Matthew Macfayden, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans as the titular Three Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
"It's that fantasy when you're a kid, you know, running around the house with sticks pretending like you're sword fighting," he added. "Everyone wants to be D'Artagnan everyone wants to be one of the musketeers."
Although the actor said he had some experience with swashbuckling in his childhood, that actor had to train for months to get experience as a swordsman to be a believable D'Artagnan.
"We went thought months and months of training to be able to look like I could swordfight for this movie. So we trained for like three months, four months for this movie," Lerman said. "Then throughout filming, just everyday perfecting a new fight sequence. Our goal was to show audiences something they had never seen before. "
Still, even with the training Lerman said he found it hard to get into character before getting into costume. "I found it very difficult to get into the role and understand the character," Lerman said. "But the minute we go out here, you know, landed in Germany and started rehearsing at these locations and the wardrobe and everything -- it just kind of came together naturally."
Lerman is also known for his role in the 2010 movie "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
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