• Warning: There are main spoilers forward for season three, episode six of Hulu’s “The Nice.”
• Star Nicholas Hoult shared his response to Peter’s surprising second in an interview with Insider. 
• “It was actually stunning writing and really emotional,” Hoult stated. 

“The Nice” star Nicholas Hoult reacted to his character Peter’s surprising second on season three, episode six of the hit Hulu satire collection.  

On the episode, titled “Ice,” Peter met his premature loss of life after stealing Catherine’s (Elle Fanning) military to assist Hugo (Freddie Fox) reclaim Sweden. 

“We knew that he would die earlier than the season even began,” Hoult not too long ago instructed Insider whereas joined by Elle Fanning for a digital press junket for season three. “And we knew roughly round episode six.”

Hoult recalled that Fanning “had an inkling” concerning how precisely Peter would die, whereas he would “often get murmurs.”

“I did not know till studying the script that it was by falling by the ice on a horse,” the Emmy-nominated actor stated. “However I feel the factor that was much more highly effective than that was the buildup to it — the scene that Catherine and Peter have collectively, which is the mix of their relationship and all these years they’ve spent collectively.”

In typical “Nice” trend, Peter’s loss of life scene was tragic, whereas nonetheless in step with the present’s darkish humor. 

Previous to his loss of life, Hoult’s character had been struggling along with his failure to reside as much as the status of his late father, Peter the Nice.

This worry that historical past will not keep in mind him, mixed with ongoing emotions of inadequacy, turned heightened this season as he started regularly hallucinating his dad.

The stress of Peter’s legacy additionally weighed heavier as soon as Catherine gave beginning to their first youngster, a son named Paul. 

Throughout episode six, Catherine confronted Peter close to an ice lake, as he was en path to invade Sweden.

Regardless of Catherine’s protesting, Peter refused to show again and felt that he needed to contribute to the invasion as a result of, “Me, as I’m, shouldn’t be sufficient.”

Catherine tried to guarantee Peter that he was adequate as he was and reminded him that he would not be capable of undo the consequence of his newest defiance of her reign.

However Peter, agency in his stance, stated that he wanted to do that. Earlier than parting methods, Peter instructed Catherine that he liked her with all the things.

Then, whereas driving a horse and crossing the ice lake, Peter instantly had a change of coronary heart and stated, “Really…”

However earlier than he may flip round totally, his horse fell by the ice and Peter drowned within the lake. In the meantime, Catherine noticed the entire scenario unravel within the distance, surprised and heartbroken on the lack of the difficult love of her life. 

Hoult praised “The Nice” creator and government producer Tony McNamara for his writing of that pivotal scene. 

“You suppose issues are going a technique and instantly, maybe Peter’s about to vary his thoughts, however then the sudden occurs, and it is throughout,” he stated.  “So it was actually stunning writing and really emotional. However yeah, I used to be shocked that that was how he went.”

All episodes of season three of “The Nice” at the moment are streaming on Hulu.