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Shailene Woodley Says Laura Dern Satisfied Her To Do ‘Large Little Lies’


With the potential third season of Large Little Lies nonetheless up within the air, Shailene Woodley is reflecting on how it began.

The 2x Golden Globe nominee not too long ago gave an replace on Season 3 as she recalled how “my sister,” co-star Laura Dern, satisfied her to signal on to the HBO collection adaptation of Liane Moriarty‘s ebook, which ran for 2 seasons from 2017 to 2019.

“I acquired a name, I’ll always remember it. It was November or October of 2015. I used to be actually sick on the time and I used to be under no circumstances exhausted by appearing or the artistry and the craft of storytelling, however I used to be actually exhausted by the act of Hollywood,” she informed Vainness Truthful. “And I acquired a name about Large Little Lies as a result of Jean-Marc Vallée — our stunning creator, director, who has since handed — had needed me to play Jane. And I used to be determined to work with him, I believed he was such an unbelievable artist and filmmaker. However I used to be actually dead-set on ‘discovering myself.’”

Woodley then acquired a name from Dern whereas she was in India. “And she or he simply stated, ‘Hear, I do know the place you’re at in your life. I’ve been there earlier than too. It’s quite a bit. This world is an phantasm, however what isn’t an phantasm is what you like to do. And what I see in you, Shai, is your function — not less than on this second in your life — is to be a storyteller. And I feel it’s a large mistake so that you can stroll away from this chance that you just actually ought to lean into,’” she recalled.

“It was due to that decision that I made a decision to go away India and are available again to the USA, and it without end modified my life,” added Woodley. “And so, in so some ways, I’m grateful for Laura, however that was a large second of brave friendship to say, ‘I feel that you just’re making a mistake and I’m gonna be courageous sufficient to let you know why, trigger I actually see you and I see one thing you’ll be able to’t see in your individual life proper now.’”

Big Little Lies

Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern in Large Little Lies.

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Co-star and govt producer Nicole Kidman beforehand teased a possible third season final 12 months, on which Dern and Zoë Kravitz have additionally since commented.

“The gorgeous factor about Large Little Lies is that we’re all truly associates in actual life,” stated Woodley. “We’ve a textual content chain going and it’s continuously a check-in, each few weeks, ‘Hey, what’s the replace?’ ‘It’s nonetheless occurring.’ I maintain being informed that there’s going to be a season 3, however I haven’t learn something but.”

Tailored by David E. Kelley, Large Little Lies is a darkish comedy that follows a gaggle of mothers (Woodley, Dern, Kidman, Kravitz and Reese Witherspoon) within the beachfront city of Monterey, California as they’re bonded by homicide. Vallée directed Season 1 earlier than he died at age 58 in 2021. Andrea Arnold helmed Season 2.

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