The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.“I didn’t know much about her.
I knew about the horse rumour — which is sad,” Fanning, 22, confesses on a Zoom call from Los Angeles. “That horse thing is the first form of slut-shaming, basically.”In The Great, which airs exclusively in Canada on Amazon Prime Video, Fanning leads a refashioning of Catherine the Great’s rise from wide-eyed bride of Russian Emperor Peter III (Nicholas Hoult) to the enlightened and ruthless leader who left an indelible mark on history.
But it tells its story by tweaking some of the facts and amping up the comedy with bits of vulgar humour.After a series of roles that have seen her go from the sci-fi thrills.
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