Elle Fanning's portrayal of Catherine II, the longest-reigning Empress of Russia, on .The actress steps strikingly into the Golden Era of the empire's 18th century Enlightenment on the lauded Hulu series, though it takes her character a moment to see past the glitz and glamour. «She starts out as this romantic and very optimistic young girl,» Fanning tells ET of her Catherine, scripted to cunning perfection by screenwriter Tony McNamara, who created the series, «and basically is slapped in the face with reality and realizes, 'OK, this is not the life that I wanted, so I'm going to make the life that I want.'»'sfirst season portrays just a fragment of Catherine's fictionalized story — spanning from the moment she meets her husband-to-be,.
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