Elle Fanning & Tony McNamara On “Much More Unpredictable” ‘The Great’ Season 4; Glamour & Court Shenanigans In Season 3 – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comThere are a lot of guns in season 3 of Hulu’s The Great, particularly a season where Catherine the Great is trying to outlaw Russia’s pastime –murder.
But throughout the chaos, reason and serenity arise as Elle Fanning’s royal comes into her full reign. “We don’t know how it’s going to end,” says Fanning on The Great creator Tony McNamara’s approach every season.
While he’s happy to share some sort of end-game with actors, the creator leaves himself in a position where he can tweak and pivot if needed storywise.
One of the major to-dos this season was the fate of Nicholas Hoult’s Peter the III. “I think we knew it was looming, even though we’re not completely historically accurate,” says Fanning about the show’s insane and zany fun in blurring fact with fiction, “It had to happen at some point.” “I think he officially died of hemorrhoids, but that didn’t seem very dramatic,” comments McNamara about taking another way, “Seemed kind of funny.
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