much of the season pregnant with her son.To prep for the delivery scene, Elle spoke with a midwife and scoured videos of women giving birth.“I was born during a tornado, so they couldn’t video when I was born because the hospital was in lockdown — which is very fitting, I think,” the “Maleficent” star told Entertainment Weekly.“But I do have a tape of my mother giving birth to my sister,” she added.Elle revealed that her mother “didn’t have any drugs or anything” when she birthed Dakota, 27, and it “scarred in my brain of what that’s like!”“The Great” follows the reign of a young Catherine and her husband Peter III, played by Nicholas Hoult, as they attempt to keep the Russian Empire from crumbling. “The Crown” star Gillian Anderson joins.
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