With hundreds of scripted shows on television each year, producers are increasingly leaning on existing IP and new takes on established figures to lure viewers in.
“Playing someone that actually existed, those are huge shoes to fill,” says Steinfeld. “There are people who are just completely and utterly moved by [Emily’s] work and what she left behind — you feel the pressure of their expectations. This is someone who has been in people’s lives, who has made people feel like they are not weird because all they want to do is create.
Also using its tone to set itself apart from its counterparts is Hulu’s sharp comedy, “The Great,” which follows the origins of Catherine the Great , who eventually goes on to be the ruler of Russia. Though her story has been on screen a handful of times in the past, “The Great” is one of two Catherine-related TV projects in the past year alone.
While Fanning has yet to see Mirren’s “Catherine the Great,” she loves that there are two shows, set in different eras of her life — and potentially for very different audiences — available. At the start of the shoot, “I was fairly preoccupied with taking on an iconic, very well known, perfectly performed character that so many people are really aware of,” she admits. “It definitely kept me up many a night. But it became very clear, very early on that the situations we were putting our Annie in were so markedly different than anything that the ‘Misery’ Annie Wilkes would have to deal with. So much of the heavy lifting was done for me just by the writing.
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