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Listen: Elle Fanning on Playing Catherine the Great and Finally Working With Sister Dakota in ‘The Nightingale’

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By Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Elle Fanning has spent most of her 12-year career making movies.

Now, at 22, she’s jumping into television, starring as Catherine the Great in Hulu’s 10-part satirical comedy series “The Great,” which debuts on May 15.

Written by “The Favourite” scribe Tony McNamara, the show follows Catherine’s rise to power, from her arranged marriage to Peter III (Nicholas Hoult) to becoming empress of Russia in 1762 after having her husband assassinated. “I didn’t know much about her.

I knew the she-had-sex-with-a-horse propaganda,” Fanning says. “That’s what I knew about her, which is extremely sad. But I came to learn that she’s this kind of feminist icon, and she brought enlightenment to

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