’s power-hungry empress, talks to ET about Peter’s attempts to win back his crown after hastily abdicating the throne to his pregnant wife and trickiness of playing his own lookalike in season 2.
“He’s so in love with Catherine and it becomes a complex transition,” Hoult says, adding that “he’s never had to look at himself as a bad person before because of the way he’s been raised and being this leader, he’s been surrounded by yes people.” While he does give it a go, “and he really does do his best,” Hoult says. It’s not long before “he falls back into his old patterns.”
He adds with a chuckle, “The climax of that was brilliant and also very comedic and ridiculous, 'cause you’re looking at a skeleton.” While Hoult has delivered a standout, if not shamefully overlooked performance as Peter on the series, the episode really lets him shine. “I really loved it when I first read because Peter has been placed under house arrest and then put into isolation. And it was interesting just coming off the lockdown and being fairly isolated,” the actor explains.