See Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning have “The Great” reunion and decide their 'Barbenheimer' title

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On Tuesday, The Great star Nicholas Hoult surprised his former costar Elle Fanning at a press junket. Both are in highly-anticipated holiday releases: him Nosferatu, which comes out on Dec. 25, and Fanning is in Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. which arrived in theaters Wednesday.

She laughed when Hoult walked into the room. Once she collected herself, she asked about their "Barbenheimer," and what it would be. She said they were texting about this "the other day."

"A Complete UnNosferatu," they agreed in the video above.

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At one point, Fanning asked Hoult the name of his publication, which he cleverly identified as Horse and Hound. Fans of the 1999 movie Notting Hill will, of course, recognize this as the publication that Hugh Grant's William Thacker names when he poses as a reporter in order to sneak into a junket with Julia Roberts' character, movie star Anna Scott.

Adding another layer of delight to Hoult's reference is that he costarred with Grant in the 2002 movie About a Boy.

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Hulu's The Great aired for three seasons from 2020 to 2023. The period comedy, called "an almost entirely untrue story," starred Fanning and Hoult as married Russian royals Catherine the Great and Peter III. (Hoult also played a second character, Peter's lookalike Pugachev.) Both stars were nominated for Emmys in 2022 as lead actress and actor.

In May 2023, Fanning told Entertainment Weekly that she was deeply affected by the death of Hoult's main character in the third season of the series, because it meant their time working together had ended.

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"I was devastated. It felt like a real death," she said then. "I will say, I would go home and cry. The sets felt so much emptier without having Nick fill them. I think also, Catherine and Peter, their dynamic and the scenes that we got to do together, it was just so sad knowing that we would never get to do that banter again, you know? We're going to work together again, but it's not as these characters."

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