The cast of 'The Great' returns for more laughs in Season 2 of the (somewhat true) historical comedy
While her character on "The Great" is engaged in a coup against her husband for control of Russia in the show's second season, Elle Fanning has some interesting thoughts about what it all means.
"I think the big theme of this [season] is parenting because we have our parents come in," she told CNN. "Gillian Anderson plays my mom, Jason Isaacs plays [Nicholas Hoult's character, Peter III's] dad. There's moms, dads, babies, motherhood, becoming a mother to a country."
The new season of Hulu's naughty - and mostly not historically accurate - depiction of Catherine the Great's life as empress of 18th century Russia debuts Friday.
In it, Fanning and Hoult play battling spouses who are expecting a child and have a complicated relationship, to say the least.
Hoult said he knew very little about Catherine prior to taking on the role.
"I only knew the infamous horse rumor," he said, referring to a false urban legend that Catherine the Great died attempting to have sex with a horse.
The series is as bawdy as that false story about the empress.
"That's kind of a bizarre thing when you break it apart and realize that this woman achieved so many wonderful things, changed a country, moved science forward and education," Hoult added. "She was so progressive."
Phoebe Fox, who plays lady in waiting Marial, said "The Great" is as much fun to perform in as it is to watch.
"Most of the time it becomes about trying to mitigate how much fun you are having," she said. "It becomes sort inappropriate or the time is ticking, we're trying to get the scene and people keep laughing. It's helped by the fact we really like each other."
Sacha Dhawan plays Count Orlo and said the chemistry of the cast is magical because they didn't do any testing together or even a table read of the first script.
"Our director who did the pilot was like 'Ok, let's just get up on our feet and run it like a play," Dhawan said. "So you've got all these strangers coming together to do this first episode and it was such good fun. It just started this journey perfectly."
在《伟大的》历史喜剧的第 2 季中，“伟大的”演员阵容回归，带来更多笑声
虽然她在“The Great”中的角色在该剧的第二季中对她的丈夫发动政变，以控制俄罗斯，但艾丽·范宁 (Elle Fanning) 对这一切意味着什么有一些有趣的想法。
“我认为这个[赛季]的大主题是育儿，因为我们有父母进来，”她告诉美国有线电视新闻网。 “吉莉安·安德森扮演我的妈妈，杰森·艾萨克扮演 [尼古拉斯·霍尔特的角色，彼得三世的] 爸爸。有妈妈、爸爸、婴儿、母亲，成为一个国家的母亲。”
Hulu 调皮的新一季——而且大多不符合历史事实——描绘了叶卡捷琳娜大帝作为 18 世纪俄罗斯皇后的生活，周五首播。
在其中，范宁和霍尔特扮演夫妻之间的斗争，他们怀有孩子并且关系复杂，至少可以这么说。
霍尔特说，在担任这个角色之前，他对凯瑟琳知之甚少。
“我只知道臭名昭著的马谣言，”他说，指的是一个虚假的都市传说，即凯瑟琳大帝死于试图与马发生性关系。
这个系列和那个关于皇后的虚假故事一样下流。
霍尔特补充说：“当你把它拆开并意识到这个女人取得了这么多美妙的事情，改变了一个国家，推动了科学和教育的发展，这是一件很奇怪的事情。” “她太进步了。”
在《等待的玛丽亚》中饰演女士的菲比福克斯说，《伟大的》在表演和观看时一样有趣。
她说：“大多数时候，它会试图减轻你的乐趣。” “这变得有点不合适，或者时间在流逝，我们正在努力让场景变得有趣，人们一直在笑。我们真的很喜欢彼此，这对我们有所帮助。”
Sacha Dhawan 饰演 Orlo 伯爵并说演员的化学反应很神奇，因为他们没有一起做任何测试，甚至没有对第一个剧本进行表格阅读。
“我们负责试播的导演就像是‘好吧，让我们站起来像戏剧一样运行它，”Dhawan 说。 “所以你让所有这些陌生人聚在一起制作第一集，这真是太有趣了。它刚刚完美地开始了这段旅程。”
