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Elle Fanning will be starring in the upcoming Hulu series The Girl From Plainville, which is inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter and her controversial “texting-suicide” case.

Based off of the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron, the limited series will explore Carter’s relationship with Conrad Roy III and the events that led to his death and, later, her controversial conviction of involuntary manslaughter.

Elle will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside writers and showrunners Liz Hannah (The Post) and Patrick Macmanus (Dr. Death).

This is Elle‘s second series for Hulu following The Great, which premiered earlier this year. That show was renewed for a second season last month.

Check out the fun video that Elle and her older sister Dakota Fanning posted the other day!

Elle and Dakota Fanning are showing off their wine-drinking skills!

The 22-year-old The Great actress took to her Instagram on Saturday (August 1) to share a video of she and the 26-year-old The Alienist actress to partake in the viral #WineChallenge, which Cameron Diaz also recently completed.

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In the video, Elle sits between Dakota‘s legs while holding the bottom of a wine glass in her mouth.

She then tipped her head back while trying to pour the wine into Dakota‘s mouth.

Back in early July, it was announced that Hulu picked up Elle‘s show The Great for a second season.

You can watch all 10 episodes of the show on Hulu now!

Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult‘s hit show The Great has been renewed for a second season at Hulu.

The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. Season One is a fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl, who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter. Hoping for love and sunshine, she finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court onside. A very modern story about the past which encompasses the many roles she played over her lifetime as lover, teacher, ruler, friend, and fighter.

THR reports that season two will contain 10 episodes.

If you haven’t seen the show yet, you can get a way better sense of what it’s about by checking out the poster!

Dakota and Elle Fanning are enjoying a day out with their mom!

The 26-year-old The Alienist actress and the 22-year-old Maleficent actress ran a few errands with their mom Heather Joy Arrington on Tuesday afternoon (June 16) in Los Angeles.

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Dakota donned a cute green dress while Elle sported a white T-shirt, jeans, and a face mask for their outing.

Over the weekend, the sisters helped a friend celebrate her Sweet 16th birthday!

If you didn’t know, Elle and Dakota will soon be starring together in an upcoming movie.

The first trailer for Dakota‘s upcoming movie, Viena & The Fantomes, was just released and it looks so good!

FYI: Dakota is wearing P448 sneakers.

Dakota Fanning heads back to her car after attending a friend’s sweet 16 birthday party in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The 26-year-old Alienist actress wore a pair of cool polka dotted pants as she left the bash with younger sister, Elle, who wore a cool yellow dress.

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Elle and Dakota, who will be starring together in an upcoming movie as sisters, were seen chatting with some mutual friends while walking back to the car they came in.

If you missed it, the first trailer for Dakota‘s upcoming movie, Viena & The Fantomes, was just released and it looks so good!

You can also see what Elle shared about a possible second season on her Hulu series, The Great.

The Great seems to a great hit on Hulu, after its’ premiere on Friday (May 15).

Now, star Elle Fanning, is opening up about a possible second season of the show.

The series centers on Catherine the Great, the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, who arrives in Russia only to find out that her husband, Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult), is an idiot.

Created by writer Tony McNamara, Elle told Entertainment Weekly that she’s crossing her fingers for a season two.

“There is a possibility, and it is open to having a second season,” she shared. “We can’t say that, we don’t know, but I definitely know that Tony is for sure thinking beyond [season 1]. He has more stories.”

Elle added, referencing the ending of the first season, “I did not think it was going to end this way either because I didn’t get all the scripts before. Tony was writing the scripts while we were filming, as we were going along, and so I think none of us really knew the endpoint.”

“I definitely thought it was going to be something different. So I was surprised by that. When we got the last script it was like, ‘Oh! Okay.’”

Elle continued, “I feel like season 2 would probably continue on this story. I don’t know exactly when it would pick up, but it would be us at this age. We have our fingers crossed.”

According to another report, The Great was pitched as a six season show.

Executive producer Marian Macgowan shared at the Winter TCA that “we initially pitched six seasons. So we believe there’s sufficient material to take us through until she is an old woman.”

If you missed it, check out all the fan reactions for The Great, now!

The Great has finally premiered on Hulu and the new show has been getting a ton of great reactions from fans on social media.

Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult star in the series, centered on Catherine The Great as she arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter.

“I didn’t know much about her. I knew the she-had-sex-with-a-horse propaganda,” Elle, 22, recently told Variety about the historical figure she portrays on screen. “That’s what I knew about her, which is extremely sad. But I came to learn that she’s this kind of feminist icon, and she brought enlightenment to Russia and brought female education and art and science, and really did amazing things.”

She adds that playing the empress, is “quite fun.”

“PSA. #TheGreat is probably the best thing to come out on Hulu in a whhhhiiiillllleeeee,” one fan wrote about the series while watching.

Another adds, “The first time I’m going to stream-cheat on anyone (and it’s my grandma) but I genuinely need to watch #TheGreat it’s so impossibly good.”

The Great is streaming on Hulu now!

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