• Warning: There are main spoilers forward for season three of Hulu’s “The Nice.”
• Elle Fanning, who performs Catherine the Nice, spoke to Insider concerning the ultimate scene of the season.
• Fanning stated that she picked out the track for the second and “beloved” that day on the set.

“The Nice” star Elle Fanning weighed in on her character Catherine the Nice’s liberating dance quantity on the season three finale of Hulu’s satirical interval drama.

The ten-episode season, launched on Friday, was full of a mixture of missteps and triumphs in Catherine’s reign.

Most notably, Peter (performed by Nicholas Hoult), the good and complex love of her life, drowned within the lake in a freak accident throughout episode six. And within the aftermath, Catherine was compelled to take care of Peter’s lookalike, Pugachev, posing as her late husband and rallying individuals towards her. 

By the finale (titled “As soon as Upon a Time”), Catherine’s a way more steely ruler than the doe-eyed woman who relocated to Russia with barely delusional optimism and the unwavering perception that it was her future to guide Russia right into a progressive period.

Now, she’s ruling along with her head, not her coronary heart.

It is no shock then that by the final scene of the finale, Catherine lastly lets free. 

As a comet passes by way of Russia, Catherine is revealed to have brief, neck-length hair as a substitute of her lengthy, wavy locks. 

“Future did not do it, I did it,” she says earlier than breaking right into a solo dance set to AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Evening Lengthy” — a track Fanning picked out herself for the scene.

“That was my contribution as a result of Tony had instructed me, ‘I’ve this concept the place I believe we wanna finish it and also you simply dance. Like, Catherine is free,’” Fanning instructed Insider, referring to creator and govt producer Tony McNamara. 

“She’s been grieving for thus lengthy and she or he has such weight on her,” she added. “It is empowering and it is bizarre.”

The Emmy-nominated actor stated that she labored with the present’s choreographer, Polly Bennett, to map out the dance and give you strikes that Fanning may incorporate all through. 

“I beloved that day,” Fanning recalled of filming the scene on set. “It was so enjoyable as a result of I had my new little brief hair and I simply felt like Catherine was so cleansed and she or he was getting into a brand new position.”

Fanning stated that she carried out the quirky dance quantity eight occasions “and every time I used to be in a corset.” However the star did not thoughts as a result of, as she’s come to comprehend, she “can do something in a corset” on this sequence.

“It was so liberating and that’s one thing that I do,” she added. “I used to be like, ‘What do I dance to after I’m alone?’ And I am like, ‘Oh yeah, ACDC, that is proper.’ So fortunately, Tony allow us to use that. They allow us to use that track and Tony favored it and I simply let free. It is a great way to finish the season.”