Elle Fanning talks "funny" sex scenes in new show The Great
The Great actress Elle Fanning has shared her memories of shooting "funny" sex scenes with co-star Nicholas Hoult.
Created by The Favourite's Tony McNamara, Hulu's new historical comedy centres on Fanning's Russian ruler Catherine the Great – Hoult plays her husband Peter III.
Kicking back with Entertainment Weekly, Elle was quizzed on the show's alternating tones during sex scenes, to highlight the contrast between Catherine's marriage to Peter and her affair with Leo.
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"We had an intimacy coordinator that was on set whenever we had those scenes, to make everyone feel good and make everything look real," she explained.
"She [Catherine] was very open and free and loved sex, so that's obviously something that I wanted to touch upon. You see the young Catherine on her first wedding night and it's not exactly how she was expecting it to go.
"And she ultimately gets a lover in Leo, they have the sex that they have, which is more loving and passionate. The sex with Nick and the sex with Sebastian [de Souza] in the show is very different."
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Touching on her and Hoult's intimate moments on screen, Fanning added: "I think with Peter and Catherine, their scenes are just totally to get an heir. That's it. And Nick has to say some very bizarre lines that most of the time I was biting a pillow laughing so hard.
"I think we both like to challenge ourselves, Nick and I, and we're trying to push each other's buttons and he's trying to make me laugh and trying to go there. So I think it really helps those scenes. But especially the scene where [they have to] count his thrusts to 100, that scene, we were dying.
"There's a real wide shot where we had to kind of go through the motions because we're way in the background and the other characters are talking. And it was hard. We were just crying with laughter. So yeah, those days were actually quite enjoyable. They were funny."
The Great airs on Hulu in the US. If you're in the UK, you'll be able to watch via STARZplay or on Channel 4.
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