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Who Are the Characters in The Last Duel?

In The Last Duel, Matt Damon plays Jean de Carrouges. A knight with estates in Normandy, Carrouges is one of the men who take part in the historic duel that this story revolves around. Harriet Walter plays Nicole de Buchard, Carrouges’ mother.

Adam Driver plays Jacques Le Gris, the other party in the duel. Le Gris was Carrouges’ friend until he is accused of raping Carrouges’ wife, Marguerite. He then continues to claim innocence, even when faced with the possibility of death during trial by combat.

Jodie Comer appears as Marguerite de Carrouges, the woman at the heart of The Last Duel. Marguerite accuses Jacques Le Gris of raping her but because there are no other witnesses, she is in turn accused of bearing false witness and making baseless claims. While her husband sees the duel as the best way to get justice, her life is also on the line, just as much as his.

Nathaniel Parker plays Marguerite’s father, Sir Robert de Thibouville. Sam Hazeldine appears as Thomin du Bois, her cousin.

Ben Affleck plays Count Pierre d'Alençon, a nobleman who was lord and master to both Carrouges and Le Gris. Affleck was originally set to play Le Gris but chose to pass on the lead role and play the Count instead.

Besides these characters, the movie also features Marton Csokas as Crespin, Michael McElhatton as Bernard Latour, and Alex Lawther as King Charles VI.

When Did The Last Duel Film?

Filming on The Last Duel began on February 14, 2020, in Dordogne, France. The movie was shot in the medieval castle of Berzé-le-Châtel in Burgundy. Filming in France continued until March 12, 2020.

After France, the production was set to move to Ireland, where the movie would have been filmed from March 23, 2020, to March 30, 2020. The Irish leg of production was scheduled to shoot scenes at Bective Abbey, County Meath and Cahir Castle, County Tipperary, and a number of other locations across Dublin and County Wicklow.

However, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent travel restrictions in Europe, the studio was forced to delay the shoot indefinitely. Filming didn’t resume until late September. Production in Ireland finally wrapped on October 14, 2020.

Is The Last Duel Based On A True Story?

Yes, The Last Duel is in fact based on real events. All the characters involved were real people and the actual historic duel between Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris has been written about extensively by both historians and legal scholars.

While the rape of Marguerite de Carrouges was the inciting incident for the duel, Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris had a long history of bad blood in real life.

Historians have suggested that property disputes, money, and the favor of Count Pierre had driven a wedge between the two men long before the actual crime and subsequent trial. Carrouges was a Norman knight who had had a number of disputes with his lord, Pierre d'Alençon. Le Gris was a rich man and the count’s favorite, which made him a rival of Carrouges’s.

The two men had eventually buried the hatchet and become friends but some resentment lingered between them. The rape merely pushed these grievances back to the surface and created an opening for the two men to try and destroy each other. We don’t know how much of this history will be shown in the movie but suffice to say, this story isn’t as simple as it may appear.

The writing team, Damon, Affleck, and Holofcener, took this complexity into account while drafting the screenplay. The script was reportedly written from three different perspectives in order to fully do justice to each of the main characters.

"So, there are two knights and then there's the Lady Marguerite,” Matt Damon told ET. “So Ben and I wrote the male perspectives and Nicole Holofcener wrote the female perspective. That's kind of the architecture of that movie.”

The movie is an adaptation of the 2004 book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France written by Eric Jager. An adaptation of Jager's book was first announced in 2015 with Francis Lawrence as director and Shaun Grant writing the screenplay. However, that project eventually died out. The current adaptation got the green light in July 2019. The book has also been the basis for a BBC drama-documentary of the same name.

When And Where Does The Last Duel Take Place?

The Last Duel is set in 14th-century France, specifically the year 1386. By this point in time, trial by combat was no longer a common practice. That said, burning a woman at the stake for making “false” allegations of rape was an accepted norm so it’s not exactly an enlightened period in French history either.

What Is The Last Duel’s Plot?

Despite what the title might lead you to think, the actual duel in The Last Duel is just the tip of the iceberg. The real story of the movie is an intricate plot of intrigue and politics, with a young woman’s life caught in the middle.

The plot kicks off when Marguerite de Carrouges claims that she has been raped by Jacques Le Gris. Unfortunately, due to the lack of witnesses or evidence, the case is dismissed and Marguerite is accused of perjury. And in those days, the crime for making a false allegation was to be burned to death. Her husband, Jean de Carrouges, takes the case to the King, requesting permission to settle the dispute through trial by combat.

If you’re a Game of Thrones fan or just generally into medieval history, you might have a good understanding of how trial by combat works. The two people involved (or their representatives) fight a duel to the death. The victor is accepted as having been chosen by God as the rightful party. It’s a classic example of “might makes right” morality. Or in other words, justice belongs to he who has the biggest stick. Perfectly reasonable legal proceedings, right?

Here’s the official synopsis for The Last Duel from the movie’s website:

“The Last Duel is a gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality of 14th century France, directed by visionary filmmaker and four-time Academy Award nominee Ridley Scott.”

Considering everything revealed about the movie so far, it looks like this is going to be a major film that’s worth the watch. So mark your calendars and polish those swords you got at the renaissance fair. You don’t want to miss this.

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