'The Great' star Elle Fanning watched a video of her mom giving birth to her sister Dakota Fanning while preparing for a childbearing scene on season 2
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- Catherine, Elle Fanning's character on Hulu's "The Great," is pregnant for many of season two.
- To organize for the supply scene, she watched a video of her mother birthing her sister Dakota Johnson.
- Elle advised EW that the picture of her mom in labor with none medicine is "scarred in my mind."
Elle Fanning watched a video of her mom birthing her older sister Dakota Fanning to organize for her supply scene on the upcoming season of Hulu's "The Great," the 23-year-old informed Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday.
On Tony McNamara's "sometimes true" sophomore season, premiering Friday, Catherine (Elle) is pregnant together with her and Peter's (Nicholas Hoult) son for almost all of the episodes. Intent on precisely depicting a lady in labor regardless of by no means having given start in actual life, Elle studied up by conversing with a midwife and coursing by means of movies of deliveries, she informed EW.
She additionally dug into her household's archive.
"I used to be born throughout a twister, in order that they couldn't video once I was born as a result of the hospital was in lockdown — which could be very becoming, I feel," the actress stated.
"However I do have a tape of my mom giving delivery to my sister," she added, referring to her older sister, fellow actress Dakota.
Heather Pleasure Arrington, Elle and Dakota's mom, "didn't have any medicine or something" when she welcomed the now-27-year-old, the actress defined.
"It's scarred in my mind of what that's like!" Elle stated.
On the finish of season one, which hit the streaming platform in 2020, Catherine organizes a full-fledged coup to overthrow Peter and assume management of the Russian throne. As soon as empress, she aspires to set her adopted nation on a brand new and extra progressive path.
Whereas the couple embarks on a bloody battle for the crown, they're additionally awaiting the arrival of their first youngster collectively. The truth that Catherine carries the subsequent era of the royal bloodline presents her a level of safety and makes for an fascinating, hot-and-cold dynamic between the spouses going into season two.
"The season has a really parental theme operating via it," Elle stated, in line with PopSugar.
The actress, who additionally serves as an government producer, continued, "So [we're] having Catherine grappling with the truth that she goes to turn into a mom quickly. However then the child can also be her safety as a result of she is aware of whereas [he or she], we name it 'Paul,' whereas Paul's in there — she's protected, and Peter's not going to kill her with the infant in there."
Elle added: "So she's sort of understanding of that after which additionally having to develop into a mom to the nation."
Season two of "The Nice" premieres Friday on Hulu.
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