Elle Fanning On Juggling 'The Great' Comedy & The Real-Life Pain Of 'The Girl From Plainville' [Bingeworthy Podcast]

In this episode of The Bingeworthy—our podcast dedicated to all things television, streaming, what we watch in those mediums and how we watch it—Elle Fanning dropped by to talk about not only Hulu's “The Great,” recently finishing its second season and about to shoot its third, but her excellent and absorbing Hulu mini-series, “The Girl From Plainville.” Both series have garnered great acclaim and received terrific accolades for Fanning’s performances, but for very different reasons.

Fanning talked about working with "The Great" showrunner/writer Tony McNamara (who wrote Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite"), working with 'Great' partner Nicholas Hoult--who she said was instrumental in helping her get the rhythms down to this hyper-specific ratatat comedy and finding her voice as a producer on the series.

For "The Girl From Plainville," a radically different series about a true-life case of "texting suicide," Fanning discussed her ethical obligations to playing real-life people who are still alive and have families that are still grieving. While the show has fantasy segments and blurs reality and fantasy, she was sure--again as a producer too--the show couldn't be exploitative. It's a great conversation with Elle Fanning who is such an amazingly versatile actor. 

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