I have added a new photoshoot of Nicholas Hoult for The Hollywood Reporter.
2021 Photoshoots & Portraits > Photoshoot #003
admin | Nov 26, 2021
After its superb debut with season 1, The Great is back with another strong, if not funnier and raunchier season telling the not entirely true account of Catherine the Great’s rise to power in Russia and her tumultuous marriage to Peter III. Nicholas Hoult, who portrays the violent, sex-addicted and sometimes daft emperor opposite Elle Fanning’s power-hungry empress, talks to ET about Peter’s attempts to win back his crown after hastily abdicating the throne to his pregnant wife and trickiness of playing his own lookalike in season 2.
Picking up months after Catherine launched her coup at the end of season 1, Peter is initially on the run. But because he’s not someone who necessarily strategizes or plans ahead, “Peter loses his whole empire because he gets too hungry and signs it over for a roasted ham,” Hoult says. As a result, for the rest of season 2, he’s a prisoner in his own palace.
Initially, Peter’s quite content with his life as a kept man. He’s relieved of the pressures of ruling over Russia and is free to indulge in various pursuits, such as learning karate, studying meditation or practicing the violin. “He’s quite happy being kept in the palace, getting to do all the things he loves, trying to better himself, and getting on with his life without the stress of being the emperor,” Hoult says, adding that “it’s only on in the season that he starts to feel that perhaps has been made to look like a fool or that he gave up.”
Once that notion sets in is when the real chess match between Peter and Catherine begins, as she’s forced to deal with his antics all the while she’s trying to bring the enlightenment to her adopted country. But complicating matters even more is the fact that Peter loves Catherine and seems hellbent on proving his worth to her, even if she’s not interested.
admin | Nov 26, 2021
Elle Fanning found the perfect co-star in Nicholas Hoult! “I wouldn’t do [‘The Great’] with anyone else – I couldn’t. … We have so much fun, and it’s so easy, and we’re very honest with each other. We kind of tell it like it is, and it’s very open, and you kind of have to have that relationship for something like this,” she told Access Hollywood. Elle and Nicholas also teased what’s in store for Catherine and Peter in the show’s upcoming second season. “The Great” Season 2 hits Hulu on Nov.
admin | Nov 26, 2021
‘Extra’s’ Cheslie Kryst talks to Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult about what’s in store for their characters Catherine and Peter on Season 2 of ‘The Great.’ Elle also gives an update on a delayed movie project with her sister Dakota Fanning and talks filming her new ripped-from-the-headlines Hulu series ‘The Girl from Plainville,’ which takes on the Michelle Carter case. Season 2 of ‘The Great’ premieres on Hulu November 19.
admin | Nov 26, 2021
I have added some stills of Nicholas Hoult from The Late Late Show with James Corden. You can go to the gallery to take a look.
2021 TV Shows & Appearances > “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (November 23, 2021)
admin | Nov 26, 2021
James welcomes Aisling Bea and Nicholas Hoult to the show and asks Nicholas about going all-out last Christmas when he played Santa for his son. And Aisling recalls her long days working as an elf and why we need to really show more love to the unsung hero of the holidays. After, Nicholas tells James about a very, very unfortunate incident when he dove in face first to a scene filming this season of “The Great.”
After James asks Aisling Bea about “Home Sweet Home Alone,” he shares a photo Nicholas Hoult after a hole-in-one he aced just hours before the UEFA Euro 2020 Final…wait a minute…
admin | Nov 19, 2021
How that adorable kid from ‘About a Boy’ survived childhood fame (and a very bad ‘90210’ audition) to become TV’s favorite despot on ‘The Great’: “I feel like I’m very much at the start of things still.”
“Are you interested in how I got dog poo on my face when truffling?” asks Nicholas Hoult one chilly October morning, seated at a tucked-away eatery in North Hollywood. Something in the way the 31-year-old Englishman says it — brightly, eagerly, as if he’s offering a tea cake — makes it sound not entirely unenticing.
So this is how Hoult got dog poo on his face when truffling: It was spring 2021, and the actor was in a forest somewhere outside London filming the second season of The Great, Hulu’s breakout dramedy about the rise of Russia’s 18th century ruler Catherine the Great, which returns Nov. 19.
Hoult plays her spoiled and volatile man-child of a husband, Peter III — a bravura performance that earned him Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations — while Elle Fanning plays the empress, whom last we saw staging a successful coup against him.
And so now Peter is being held captive inside his own castle. When Catherine refuses to let him and his beloved poodle out on a promised truffling expedition (Peter is an unabashed foodie), he outruns the guards and storms into the woods in a fur hat and nightgown to root out some truffles on his own.
“So I was snuffling through the woods,” Hoult continues. “We finished a take, and there was a slightly green, weird mud on my face. And I was like, ‘Oh. This is definitely poop.’ For some reason, it had snowed in England. Didn’t see the poo.”
No one can appreciate the humor in that humbling situation more than Hoult, who, figuratively at least, has had to endure countless such indignities on his journey from child star (starting with that bowl cut he sported in his breakout turn in 2002’s About a Boy) to handsome leading man.
Case in point: By 2008, Hoult, then 18, had found continued success in the U.K., having starred in Skins, an edgy young adult series that brought him what he calls “a weird-ish level of fame because only people in your age group are watching.” But he was struggling to find a footing in Hollywood.
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