Sacha Dhawan on The Great, Crohn's Disease and finding his own voice
Sacha Dhawan (Photograph Michael Shelford( and Elle Fanning in The Great THE reason that some people will be rather upset about Tony McNamara’s current TV series The Great, loosely (very loosely) based on the story of Catherine the Great, is the reason why Sacha Dhawan was thrilled about getting a part in it. “I’m a British south Asian actor being considered to play a character who was Russian from head to toe and so I was really excited,” the Manchester-born actor tells me down the line from his home in London. “I knew that Tony was challenging the audience’s perceptions.”