17 thoughts on “HBO’s Catherine the Great – More More More!

  1. We all love Dame Helen, and she’s an awe-inspiring actress. However, she is just a little too gaunt to play this role. I’d have been tempted to cast someone a little more full-figured.

  2. I’m looking forward to this because I adore Helen Mirren. I may do a short-term subscription to HBO for it. If I were casting a film about Catherine’s rise to power, I would cast Hayley Atwell as Catherine.

  3. The close-up of the cross-dressing gent looks a lot like Rory Kinnear to me. IMDb doesn’t list him for this production, but Wikipedia does (as playing Nikita Ivanovich Panin).

  4. It looks like this would be worth a short subscription to HBO. Love the actress, the subject, and those gowns are gorgeous.

  5. I have an HBO subscription so I will definitely be watching. Love the gowns. I am such a sucker for historical costume dramas.

  6. I too have an HBO subscription and I’ll definitely be watching this for the history, costumes and bc I am a huge Dame Helen fan. The costumes looks 99% or close to right, the designer gets beaucoup kudos for the research and such beautiful costumes.

  7. The man in woman’s clothes might be the Chavalier D’Eon. He spent considerable time in the Russian court dressed as a woman. Granted it was under the reign of Elizabeth but he was already dressing as a woman fulltime by the 1770’s.

  8. I love 1770s french fashion, catherine the great, helen mirren, and men in drag. I am so there

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