Big Little Lies is coming back for a second season—this time, with 100 percent more Meryl Streep!—but dont count on a Season 3. As unlikely as the shows second season seemed early on, the possibility of an additional chapter seems even more remote. Why? As Nicole Kidman recently told Variety, “I think it would be hard to get the whole group together.”
“But,” the actress added, “we would love to do it.”
As fans will recall, Big Little Lies was originally intended to be an HBO limited series. Following that first finale, it seemed unlikely that all of those stars—Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Adam Scott, Zoë Kravitz, and Alexander Skarsgård—would align once more for a second go-around—and from a narrative perspective, there was reason for them not to. But it appears that the shows impact was too great for HBO to resist. The new season will bring us back to Monterey next year, and has plenty for Big Little Liars to get excited about—like Andrea Arnold signing on as director and, of course, new co-star Meryl Streep.
Streep, who will play Kidmans mother-in-law in the upcoming season, was apparently very interested in the series even before she officially signed on. As Kidman tells it, the actress e-mailed her and Witherspoon after the show won its Golden Globe for best-limited series. “She goes, I suppose now I have to join you,” Kidman said. “And we were like, What? The two of us were just shocked.” Streep, she said, signed on for Season 2 without even reading a script. “Thats how much she wanted to support us.”
While Kidman might have no shortage of screen experience herself, she was still understandably nervous to share scenes with Streep. Actually, the word she used was “terrified.”
“Youre acting opposite the great one,” Kidman said. “I get nervous anyway—but to be opposite her and not want her to think, Who is this amateur? And also, we want to deliver a series for her that shes great in.” It seems safe to bet that she—and everyone else—will do just fine.
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