Will Thorne Staff WriterDuring several weeks of rehearsal in the build-up to shooting “The Favourite,” the core cast members, including Nicholas Hoult, would run scenes, play acting games and dance, while director Yorgos Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara looked on.
After only two days of frolicking around, McNamara says he earmarked Hoult to play a lead role in his next big period project, Hulu’s darkly comic “The Great.”“I rang the other producer on the show and I said, ‘I think I’ve found our Peter,’” McNamara says.
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