So it’s not really a period drama in a lot of ways, because it’s so modern. I just hoped people wanted to buy it for whatever it’s worth. I met Tony, and he’s the greatest genius ever, and I knew Nick was gonna be in it at that point. Everyone comes up here and says that, but it’s true!ĮF: But Catherine, I just saw her completely. Catherine means a lot and we all love each other on the cast. Now I’m 23 and thinking about season two coming out, I get very emotional talking about the series.
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And honestly, I didn’t know that this is what I was looking for, but this role and this series is everything I was looking for. It’s so distinctive, I can imagine it being hard to imagine.ĮF: I don’t know if it was hard to imagine, weirdly, because Tony’s words are so specific and direct that he puts his point so across: It’s right there, and it’s very unapologetic.
It was a pilot - I might’ve read the script, actually …ĮF: And he had just done The Favourite with Nick, but it hadn’t come out yet, so I didn’t have anything to tonally compare the script to. Tony McNamara, the creator, had seen some things I had been in and thought of me for this. It wasn’t much of a contemplation in my mind at all. What was it about this project that you were like, We gotta make this happen?Įlle Fanning: It was pretty immediate. Download the episode from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.Įlle, you were attached to this early and were part of pitching it. The panel was also released as an episode of Vulture’s comedy podcast Good One.
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Watch it all go down in the video below, or read on for the full transcript. They discussed the project’s development from its earliest iteration, the show’s incredible costume and production design, and the challenges of shooting its many violent and intimate scenes. At this year’s Vulture Festival, the two sat down for a long conversation about The Great in the lead-up to its second-season premiere on Hulu.
So much of what makes it wildly appealing is also difficult to nail down its comedy happens in the empty spaces between lines, often by holding a beat for one minute too long or letting one of its near-sociopathic characters speak a sentence and simply walk away.Īll of those qualities make it equally fascinating to consider in detail, especially when its lead actors are as thoughtful and game as Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. It’s a costume drama that’s decidedly ahistorical a comedy that dresses in dramatic drag. Hulu’s The Great is an unusually slippery show to talk about.