
'The Great' stars on the new season of the sort of historical comedy
CNN
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.

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