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.

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