And of course, I think sex is also a real big part of the real Catherine the Great's life. And I had never worked with anyone like that before, but that was nice to have. We had an intimacy coordinator that was on set whenever we had those scenes, to make everyone feel good and make everything look real. 'And we wanted to make sure everyone's comfortable.
'You know, sex is a big part of our show,' Fanning told EW of working on the sex-heavy series. Unsurprisingly, the scenes with Leo are the hot ones. Or, I guess you could, but why even bother, you know? In Hulu's The Great, Elle Fanning has a lot of sexy scenes with not one, but two hot leading men, Nicholas Hoult, who plays her husband, Peter III of Russia, and Sebastian de Souza, who plays her lover, Leo Voronsky. You can't make a show about Catherine the Great without sex.