Exclusive The Great Clip Featuring Series Star Elle Fanning

October 20, 2020

ComingSoon.net has an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from Hulu’s period comedy drama series The Great, featuring star and executive producer Elle Fanning discussing the style of Catherine the Great in the show. The first season of The Great is available now on Digital and DVD. You can order your copy here to watch more special features and check out the clip in the player below!

The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great through the 18th Century Russia from outsider to the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. Season One is a fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl, who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter. Hoping for love and sunshine, she finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court onside. A very modern story about the past which encompasses the many roles she played over her lifetime as lover, teacher, ruler, friend, and fighter.

The series stars Elle Fanning (Super 8, Maleficient) as Catherine the Great, Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) as Russian emperor Peter, Phoebe Fox (Eye in the Sky, One Day) as Marial, Adam Godley (Breaking Bad), Gwilym Lee (Bohemian Rhapsody) as Grigor, Charity Wakefield (Bounty Hunters, Sense & Sensibility), Douglas Hodge (Penny Dreadful) and Sacha Dhawan (After Earth, Iron Fist).

The Great is written and executive produced by Tony McNamara (The Favourite) with Matt Shakman (Game Of Thrones) serving as the director. Fanning and Marian Macgowan are also set as executive producers.