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Elle Fanning Says Catherine and Peter's Relationship Gets 'Way More Twisted' in 'The Great' Season 2

Spoilers for Hulu’s The Great, below.

My rapturous two-day binge of Hulu’s The Great was immediately followed by the sinking feeling that a second season could be years away. The series, which stars Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great and Nicholas Hoult as Peter III, is the chaotic, violent, sensual, unhinged relative of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite. Tony McNamara, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind the latter, previously hadn’t confirmed his latest show would extend beyond its 10 delicious episodes.

But, huzzah, Hulu confirmed that a second season of The Great is on the way. Ahead, everything we know about the status of season 2—and a case for why The Great deserves one.

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A second season has been confirmed.

The show tells a revisionist history of the 18th-century Russian rulers’ rocky marriage, and it was initially reported as a limited series. But by the end of the finale, the Empress has only sampled her first taste of power. “This season doesn’t end the way you think it’s going to end,” Fanning admitted to Entertainment Tonight. “[Tony]’s definitely thinking about [season 2]. He has some idea.” Luckily, Hulu confirmed that Catherine and co. will return for a second 10-episode installment.

Both of the show’s lead actors previously teased their involvement with another season. Without divulging details, Fanning previously confirmed to ET: “If they wanted to do it, I would do it right away.” It also seemed that Hoult was already involved. Variety reported the actor exited the upcoming seventh Mission Impossible movie because filming “overlapped with the production of season 2 of The Great.”

All the main cast members will likely return—with one major exception.

For a show full of bloodshed, the central characters remain alive at the end of season 1. Those likely to return include Fanning as Catherine, Hoult as Peter, Phoebe Fox as Catherine’s maid Marial, Sacha Dhawan as bureaucrat Orlov, Adam Godley as religious advisor Archie, Gwilym Lee as Peter’s right-hand man Grigor Dymov, Charity Wakefield as Peter’s frequent mistress Georgina, Belinda Bromilow as the colorful Aunt Elizabeth, and Douglas Hodge as General Velementov. However, Catherine’s lover Leo (Sebastian De Souza) may have met his death. (Though we don’t see his demise onscreen, so anything is possible.)

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The first season ends with a heartbreaking cliffhanger.

The Great‘s finale follows Catherine on her 20th birthday. As a present to herself, she decides to toss aside her meticulous months of planning by making a last-minute decision to kill Peter that day. Meanwhile, Peter is grappling with the fact that he may actually love his wife, and is determined to get her to say it back to him by day’s end.

In other events, Aunt Elizabeth realizes Catherine’s plans to overthrow Peter. While distressed, she doesn’t rat her out to the Emperor. “Most women die with an unsaid better idea in their hearts,” she concludes. General Velementov prematurely begins the coup, soldiers in tow. Plus, Orlo and Archie physically fight each other for power.

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Catherine’s plans to eliminate Peter are complicated by his birthday gift to her—a visit from her idol, Voltaire (Dustin Demri-Burns). “You are the oddest of creatures,” she tells her husband afterwards. “Cruel and thoughtless, tender, entertaining, and bizarre—I’m fond of you. In some ways, you break my heart.” When Catherine lunges forward with a knife to kill Peter, he misinterprets her coup attempt as foreplay. But that confusion is set right when Marial tells Peter of his wife’s plan—and reveals Catherine is pregnant with his heir.

In the end, it’s a love story—his for her and hers for Russia. As Peter holds a knife to Catherine’s throat, they bargain about the fate of the country and their relationship. “You love me and you love Paul,” she says, naming their unborn child in an attempt to win his sympathy. “You won’t kill us.” Peter won’t, but he will ask that Catherine end the coup or lose Leo, her assigned companion turned real-life lover. After consulting Voltaire, Catherine sacrifices Leo for the sake of her adopted country. Catherine and Peter are bonded by mutual delusions—his that she will fall in love with him, hers that he’ll allow her to rule.

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There’s much more of Catherine the Great’s story to explore.

From the beginning, The Great does not purport to be a historically accurate retelling of Catherine the Great’s life. A title card at the beginning of each episode reads “*an occasionally true story.” Based on McNamara’s 2008 play of the same name, The Great is the kind of period piece where every character inexplicably speaks in a British accent.

But despite the creative liberties (Catherine was 14 when she married Peter, not 19, and she lived with him for decades before staging her coup, not six months), there’s still much to her story. For one, Catherine didn’t rise to power until after the birth of her son Paul, a storyline teased in the finale. And she reigned for 34 years, so there’s a lot of content to dig into.

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Executive producer Marian Macgowan said they had mapped out several seasons of the show. “We initially pitched six seasons. So we believe there’s sufficient material to take us through until she is an old woman,” Macgowan told Decider. When Fanning was asked about the timeline for season 2 by Entertainment Weekly, she confirmed it would pick-up with the characters at a similar age. (No The Crown casting changes here.)

In an interview with Deadline, published after Fanning picked up a Golden Globe nomination for her performance, she declined to reveal much about the second season, but did stress her relationship with Peter will shift. “Catherine, I feel, has a real soft spot for [Peter], which gets to be explored,” she said. “Their relationship gets way more twisted. So we have a lot working together.”

It’ll likely be years before season 2 of The Great hits the screen.

Before opening your stash of macaroons and breaking glasses, we must remember the state of the world. It will likely take more than a year before we get our promised second season. The first was ordered in February 2019 and didn’t debut until May 2020. Plus, nearly every film or TV production is delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Until then, we’ll just rewatch Catherine teaching Peter how to say touché.

Stream season 1 of The Great now.

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Godley, Georgina

Born: London, England, 1955

Georgina Godley’s design career was short and sharp, her clothes sculptural and memorable. Godley originally trained as a fine artist at Brighton Polytechnic, moving on to Chelsea School of Art, London. She worked as a restorer and illustrator, and made clothes and sculptures via private commissions before joining forces with fellow student, Scott Crolla, in 1981.…

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Georgina Godley - Lump and Bump Autumn/Winter 1986 Asymmetric padded underwear white cotton Lycra with polyester filling. Photography by Cindy Palmano

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BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: FASHION AND SURREALISM (1989) This bountiful, visually lavish volume, published to accompany a 1987 exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology, features the garments, paintings, sculptures, illustrations, window displays, fashion advertisements, costume designs and photography of Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Issey Miyake, Horst P. Horst, Cinzia Ruggieri, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Krizia, Giorgio De Chirico, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, Donatella, Rene Magritte, Comme des Garcons, Enrico Donati, Elsa Schiaparelli, Salvador Dali, Marcel Rochas, Jaques Griffe, Adelle Lutz, Marina Killery, Dominique Lacoustille, Emme, Stephen Jones, Louise Bourbon, Bill Cunningham, Germaine Vittu, Eric Braagaard, Karl Lagerfeld, Candy Pratts Price, Serge Lutens, Antonio, Linda Fargo, Claude Montana, Georgina Godley, Olivier Guillemin, Yves Tanguy, Christian Lacroix, Valentine Hugo, Paul Colin, Francoise Lesage, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Cocteau, Adam Kurtzman, Herbert Bayer, Mel Odom, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alfa Castaldi, Leo Malet, Jorge Silvetti, Gabriella Giandelli, Givenchy, Marcel Jean, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Michael Roberts, Marcel Vertés, Bert Stern, John Galliano, Danuta Riyder, Paul Delvaux, Manolo Blahnik, Dorothea Tanning, Eileen Agar, Miguel Covarubias, Cristobal Balenciaga, Andre Masson, Leonor Fini,Roman Cieslewitz, Shoji Ueda, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Bruce Weber, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. M. Cassandre, Peter Lindbergh, Claude Cahun, Jean Arp, and so many more. One copy of the 1989 edition available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #fashionandsurrealism #marisol (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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A beano for the dandy - fashion archive, 21 Nov 1988 | Fashion

Woman is the opposite of the dandy, said Baudelaire, ‘because she is natural and vulgar’. As the curtain rises on the sartorial pantomime season, however, the liveried style of the dandy is designed to clothe an exclusively all-woman cast. Since the New Romanticism of the early Eighties, when young male club-goers with teenage spots and pints of lager looked spectacularly ludicrous in frilly shirts and velvet breeches, to elaborate furnishing fabrics made popular by Scott Crolla and Georgina Godley, through to the influence of Prince, the modern embodiment of pimp-dandy style, the gratuitous opulence of the English dandy look is one of the most irresistible, relentlessly re-worked themes in contemporary fashion history.

Like the Parisians who, when they adopted dandyism and Anglomania in 1800, were confused about precisely what they were copying, the fashion designers’ interpretation of the English dandy look is subject to a conveniently loose brief. ‘Was the dandy an understated gentleman who sprang from nowhere and established himself as the social equal of princes – like Beau Brummel? Or was he the aristocratic, horsey sportsman, as Balzac indicated in his Treatise on the Elegant Life. Was he the ‘fatal man’ of English Romanticism?’ asked Valerie Steele in her book, Paris Fashion.

For this season, Europe’s designers couldn’t make up their minds either, but some interesting historical cross-references emerged out of the confusion. Those that subscribed to the decorative extravagance afforded by brocade and lace zealously and inaccurately credited Oscar Wilde with providing most of the inspiration, while restrained dark velvet offset by ostentatious cravats at Katharine Hamnet and Karl Lagerfeld smacked of the horsey sportswoman.

The most spectacular interpretation of the dandy style for women was shown, ironically, not in England, where the style originated, but in Milan. Gianfranco Ferré’s elevated white collars and exaggerated white lapels and cuffs conveyed the essence of the dandy style but in a modern, updated way.

The neck was the focal point around which the entire look pivoted in 1800. Men wore fiercely stiffened collars and elaborately tied cravats or neckcloths. According to the satirical Brummell-inspired pamphlet, Neckclothitania (1818), the starched collars and neckcloths were the only way, in a world where male dress was a great leveller, to distinguish the upper class from lesser beings. Starch, in particular, gave the wearer ‘a look of hauteur and greatness ..the air of being puffed up with pride, vanity and conceit.. indispensable qualities for a man of fashion.’ Beau Brummell’s dressing room became a place of pilgrimage, to see the shirt collar as high as his head and the dazzling white cravats which were a foot wide.

English dandies at the tailor’s, engraving by George Cruikshank, 1823. Photograph: CCI/REX/Shutterstock

Although dandy looks in recent fashion history have counteracted the conventionality of traditional English dress (while, ironically, often appearing stunningly literal in interpretation) – John Galliano’s Les Incroyables collection, which echoed the loose short frock coat and wide pantaloons of the cross-Channel dandy, and the influential use of rich brocade and tapestry fabrics pioneered by Crolla and Ellis Flyte – the original dandies merely took up the conventional English country house style as normal daywear.

Dandyism ushered in a new, modern city ‘uniform’ for men, and led in the direction of dress as rebellion. The popular misconception of the dandy is that he was an outrageously effete, overdressed peacock of dubious sexuality in fact it was the Macaronis who, in the 18th century gave the look a bad name. Their dress was an exaggeration of frills, brocade, powder and paint and was a reaction against all that was typically ‘English’ and traditional.

The dandies professed to be unequivocally masculine, although many people found this difficult to believe, not least Jane Austen in Emma: ‘Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut.’ This was a round trip of 32 miles, which took all day by horse and carriage.

Although the idea of the dandified man continued well into the 19th century, he never lost sight of his masculinity. ‘From this time onwards,’ said Quentin Bell, ‘the merest hint of feminity in a man’s wardrobe was regarded with deep visceral aversion.’ The dandies did, however, go to great lengths to imitate a woman’s shape, wearing tight-lacing and padded trousers to give them a feminine appearance. They also used cosmetics, and were lampooned for it as the Macaronis had been 50 years before. The satirical magazine, The Ton (1819), describes a dandy’s morning toilette one of his first tasks is to make up for the day with ‘a little of the light brown and a touch of rouge’, then to be laced into his stays and to ‘try on cravats, 14 in number, until the perfect one is produced’. He perfumes himself with musk, puts ‘Huile Antique’ on his hair, and tells his tailor ‘how to pad my coat on the breast and on the shoulders, to put very thick lining and padding in the sleeves in order to give me an athletic look.’

Now, latter day male ‘dandies’ like Stephen Calloway of the V & A get labelled iredeemably eccentric and are laughed off the street. The Eighties man is still wrangling with the concept of vanity, while modern dandyism is only acceptable for women as long as it implies nothing more than fashionable decoration, although sexual ambiguity and cross-dressing is still the underlying essence of the dandy style – less comical this year than the thigh-slapping Principal Boy boots and jacket of last year, but as appropriately seasonal.

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http://ift.tt/2oiczuS Chantal: <blockquote>I had started Rococo in 1983, after finishing art school and was sharing a squat with architect friend Mark Prizeman, who had been at the Architectural Association. We had so many friends who were involved in the world of art, design and architecture and Charlotte was part of that group. I don’t remember exactly where we did meet first, but we seemed to be always bumping into each other at art installations, openings, and private views. These days I share an office with Mark at the London Sketch Club in Chelsea – it’s a great place to find peace and quiet to do my design work and get my teeth into my other projects away from the distractions of family and business. Mark has a fantastic archive of photos and was able to put his hand on this roll of film which show us all in September 1987?? At our friends Carlos and Henrietta’s wedding. We all look like babies and we were certainly having a lot of fun…</blockquote> Charlotte: <blockquote>Growing up in London in the late 70’s and was wild and wildly creative. It was so small in those days. The ‘Interesting’ people were rare and anyone who was anyone usually gathered at the same events as there really was nothing else to do. Restaurant culture did not exist unless you could afford go to the Connaught or Claridge’s. There were not many shops and nobody had much money anyway. The Thames was dark and foreboding. East End Warehouses were desolate effigies of London’s Dickensian Past and vast areas bombed in WWII were still abandoned, as were many houses. These were the adult playgrounds for the generation born in the 1960’s – empty spaces for squatting, studios, workshops, raves or spontaneous and random art happenings. Objets trouvés and trouvés friends all mixed up and welded together. Chance meetings turned into momentary movements and collaborations. At ‘openings’ in galleries or clubs, as a teenager you could brush shoulders with Derek Jarman, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, David Bowie, Rupert Everett, Francis Bacon and end up in a fleet of black cabs with them going to an insalubrious ‘rent’ boy club, a suite in the Ritz or just some other party. No one batted an eyelid or took a ‘celebrity’ selfie.</blockquote> Gradually, talents emerged from this bric-a-brac miasma of invention and when London started getting richer, that fervent talent started getting exercised and rewarded. The inventiveness turned into business. Architecture, fashion design, music, food and for Chantal chocolate and that wonderful Rococo shop in the King’s Road with its groundbreaking style of branding and packaging. Chantal was very much part of that scene and we had many friends in common. I went off to live in rural Tuscany and became a castle restorer and wine-maker. We recently hooked up again whilst I was organising a pop-up concert feast at the London Sketch Club and immediately started plotting and inventing – just like the old days in London – and we decided to do a chocolate making weekend at my Tuscan home, the Castello di Potentino with a Golden Easter Egg Hunt prize! The wonderful illustration is by another super gifted friend from London, Glen Baxter. 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Nigel Coates – Lecturer at AA and founder of NATO" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2opYt7T" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2oibOC0" /></a> <a href='http://ift.tt/2ohYH3w'><img width="1050" height="700" src="http://ift.tt/2opQmYL" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" srcset="http://ift.tt/2opQmYL 1050w, http://ift.tt/2oiegbv 256w, http://ift.tt/2opXRyY 600w, http://ift.tt/2oi3O3O 296w" sizes="(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px" data-attachment-id="15150" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2ohYH3w" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2opM2bY" data-orig-size="1087,720" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Nikon COOLSCAN IV ED","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="4. 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Georgina Godley, fashion designer and co-founder of CROLLA & Andre Dubreuil, furniture designer and member of Creative Salvage" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2opXKUm" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2oibdjJ" /></a> <a href='http://ift.tt/2oicAiq'><img width="1050" height="700" src="http://ift.tt/2oq3c9N" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" srcset="http://ift.tt/2oq3c9N 1050w, http://ift.tt/2oi2f5Z 256w, http://ift.tt/2oq9OVl 600w, http://ift.tt/2oijd46 296w" sizes="(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px" data-attachment-id="15153" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2oicAiq" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2opO0cq" data-orig-size="1087,720" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Nikon COOLSCAN IV ED","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="1. Mark giving his Best Man’s speech as Carlos Villanueva Brandt marries Henrietta Hoyer Miller" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2ohZYI2" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2opYtop" /></a> <a href='http://ift.tt/2oig5oT'><img width="477" height="700" src="http://ift.tt/2opPjIA" class="attachment-big-size size-big-size" alt="" data-attachment-id="15152" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2oig5oT" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2oi3PEU" data-orig-size="477,720" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Nikon COOLSCAN IV ED","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="2. Carlos & Henrietta with assorted bridesmaids" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2opE6HT" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2oi3PEU" /></a> How we met, Chantal Coady & Charlotte Horton.

Chantal:

I had started Rococo in 1983, after finishing art school and was sharing a squat with architect friend Mark Prizeman, who had been at the Architectural Association. We had so many friends who were involved in the world of art, design and architecture and Charlotte was part of that group. I don’t remember exactly where we did meet first, but we seemed to be always bumping into each other at art installations, openings, and private views. These days I share an office with Mark at the London Sketch Club in Chelsea – it’s a great place to find peace and quiet to do my design work and get my teeth into my other projects away from the distractions of family and business. Mark has a fantastic archive of photos and was able to put his hand on this roll of film which show us all in September 1987?? At our friends Carlos and Henrietta’s wedding. We all look like babies and we were certainly having a lot of fun…

Charlotte:

Growing up in London in the late 70’s and was wild and wildly creative. It was so small in those days. The ‘Interesting’ people were rare and anyone who was anyone usually gathered at the same events as there really was nothing else to do. Restaurant culture did not exist unless you could afford go to the Connaught or Claridge’s. There were not many shops and nobody had much money anyway. The Thames was dark and foreboding. East End Warehouses were desolate effigies of London’s Dickensian Past and vast areas bombed in WWII were still abandoned, as were many houses. These were the adult playgrounds for the generation born in the 1960’s – empty spaces for squatting, studios, workshops, raves or spontaneous and random art happenings. Objets trouvés and trouvés friends all mixed up and welded together. Chance meetings turned into momentary movements and collaborations. At ‘openings’ in galleries or clubs, as a teenager you could brush shoulders with Derek Jarman, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, David Bowie, Rupert Everett, Francis Bacon and end up in a fleet of black cabs with them going to an insalubrious ‘rent’ boy club, a suite in the Ritz or just some other party. No one batted an eyelid or took a ‘celebrity’ selfie.

Gradually, talents emerged from this bric-a-brac miasma of invention and when London started getting richer, that fervent talent started getting exercised and rewarded. The inventiveness turned into business. Architecture, fashion design, music, food and for Chantal chocolate and that wonderful Rococo shop in the King’s Road with its groundbreaking style of branding and packaging. Chantal was very much part of that scene and we had many friends in common. I went off to live in rural Tuscany and became a castle restorer and wine-maker. We recently hooked up again whilst I was organising a pop-up concert feast at the London Sketch Club and immediately started plotting and inventing – just like the old days in London – and we decided to do a chocolate making weekend at my Tuscan home, the Castello di Potentino with a Golden Easter Egg Hunt prize! The wonderful illustration is by another super gifted friend from London, Glen Baxter.

Image list

Mark giving his Best Man’s speech as Carlos Villanueva Brandt marries Henrietta Hoyer Miller

Carlos & Henrietta with assorted bridesmaids

Georgina Godley, fashion designer and co-founder of CROLLA & Andre Dubreuil, furniture designer and member of Creative Salvage

Chantal with Ben Gaskell – bat & firework expert & quartz collector

Nigel Coates – Lecturer at AA and founder of NATO

Henrietta, Lucy Fielden in background

Nigel Coates with Selina Fellows?

Charlotte with ?

Chantal wearing Jasper Conran peak cap

Tom Dixon Sebastian Conran

Cathy Mills, Chantal, Bill Amberg, Camilla Prizeman

Andre Dubreuil, Kadir Guirey

from How we met, Chantal Coady & Charlotte Horton.

#How we met #Chantal Coady & Charlotte Horton.

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