 Chauvelin and the Pimpernel are even shown as having some respect and admiration for each other, though not quite a friendship.Ian McKellen played Chauvelin in the 1982 TV movie, The Scarlet Pimpernel, in which Chauvelin appears to be deeply in love with Marguerite, but in an egotistical, controlling way.Further, he is so ruthlessly ambitious and vengeful that he turns on Marguerite when he realizes that her love and loyalty is to Sir Percy.