the best When award-winning actress Gillian Anderson joined the cast of this historical comedy in October 2021, fans rejoiced. Anderson plays Catherine the Great’s mother, Joanna, who will overturn the world of Catherine (played by Elle Fanning).
Speaking of Weekly newspaper, Anderson said one of the reasons she accepted the offer to join the crew the best It is an opportunity to cooperate with Fanning.
After watching some episodes of the first season and enjoying the “very interesting script” and constant irony, she was persuaded to join.
Anderson continued: “They are just funny and [I] Want to explore to be a part of that world and work with Elle. “
In the new season the best, Catherine managed to seize power from her useless husband Peter III. However, shortly after the coup, Catherine’s distant mother went to Russia to see her daughter’s victory.
Anderson described her character Joanna as a “marriage master.”
She said: “She is German, dressed in the latest styles from Paris and Europe. She is known as the master of marriage because she arranges very high-profile marriages for all her daughters.
“She came to Russia because she heard about her daughter’s coup. She wants to see it with her own eyes and may try to convince Catherine that she needs to change her mind and behave like the wife she has been to be since she was a child.”
The role of Joanna is roughly based on Catherine the Great’s biological mother, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gotop, a German regent who lived between 1712 and 1760.
She is married to Prince Christian August of Anhalt-Zebster, and they have five children in total. Their first was Sophie of Anhalt Zebst, who later became Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.
Anderson said of the mother-daughter relationship: “She [Joanna] It’s the apple in Catherine’s eyes, they are very, very close.
“She is very in control and has a lot of opinions about what Catherine is doing, how Catherine is doing, and what she might do. Even though they are so close, you will feel that Catherine might have her mother sitting on the foot. On the bench, wearing very, very rose-colored glasses, about her mother’s intentions, we began to understand that this is more suspicious than the actual situation.”
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