‘The Great’: Creator Tony McNamara On Mixing Funny With Formality – Crew Call Podcast
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOn the first Crew Call podcast of the Emmy season we speak with Oscar nominated The Favorite screenwriter Tony McNamara about his new Hulu/Media Rights Capital series The Great which follows Elle Fanning as 18th Century Empress of Russia Catherine the Great as she carefully plots a coup d’etat to take down her boorish husband, Peter III (Nicholas Hoult), in a mission to enlighten the country with the mores that are liberating her European homeland. Similar to what he did with The Favorite, McNamara has reinvigorated period drama with a riveting sense of absurdist wit and edginess.