Taking one for the team! Elle Fanning turned to midwives and birthing videos to prepare for The Great’s season 2 pregnancy story line — including her mom’s home tape of sister Dakota Fanning being born.“I was born during a tornado,” Elle, 23, told Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday, November 16, as to why she didn’t watch her own birthing tape. “So they couldn’t video when I was born because the hospital was in lockdown — which is very fitting, I think.”The Georgia native, who portrays Russian empress Catherine the Great on the Hulu series, noted that her family does have a video of big sister Dakota, now 27, coming into the world.“[My mom] didn’t have any drugs or anything,” Elle explained. “So it’s scarred in my brain of what that’s like!”Se
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