Nicole Kidman shared that she and Reese Witherspoon are in touch with one another about a third season of their series Big Little Lies.
Based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, the HBO show was initially meant to be a one-season miniseries, but was such a runaway success with fans and critics that it received a second season, and now has yet another one in the works.
Reese and Nicole both starred on and executive produced the series, which follows the intrigues and scandals simmering underneath the gilded lives of a group of suburban mothers in tony Monterey, California.
In a new interview with Elle, Nicole revealed she has been speaking with her co-stars to develop a timetable for the shoot of season three.
The 56-year-old movie star also spilled that it was her 15-year-old daughter Sunday who persuaded her to bring the show back after season two.
Nicole Kidman dished that she and Reese Witherspoon are in touch about a third season of Big Little Lies, – and that her daughter Sunday persuaded her to bring the show back; seen in 2019
Nicole shares 15-year-old Sunday and a 13-year-old daughter called Faith with her second husband, country superstar Keith Urban; they are pictured in 2017 in Sydney
Nicole shares Sunday and a 13-year-old daughter called Faith with her second husband, country superstar Keith Urban.
She also has two grown children – Isabella ‘Bella’, 31, and Connor, 29 – whom she adopted with her first husband Tom Cruise.
Sunday, said Nicole, ‘is the one who watched both of the series and went: “Okay, there’s just no question, there has to be a third.”‘
The teen took an evenhanded view of on one of the main plot threads of season two – the tempestuous relationship between Nicole’s character Celeste and her mother-in-law Mary Louise, played by Meryl Streep.
Nicole recalled: ‘She’s like: “Celeste, she’s not coping in the second one, what is she doing? I could kind of see the point of view of Mary Louise.”‘
Over the course of the interview, Nicole also explained why she and Reese waited so long to bring the show back, given season two aired all the way back in 2019.
‘There’s the richness of the storylines, which we’d always discussed,’ the To Die For actress shared: ‘but it needed time because there’s actual unbelievable depth to the next chapter of these women’s lives and their children’s lives – because children grow up, and that’s kind of fascinating.’
One of the other plus points of this particular project for Nicole has been the fact that she and her co-stars managed to become genuine friends.
Based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, the HBO show was initially meant to be a miniseries; Reese and Nicole are pictured on the original season with Shailene Woodley
The program featured a top-flight cast including Laura Dern, Alexander Skarsgard, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz and Adam Scott.
Because the cast share a personal connection to each other, Nicole has had an easier time attempting to align everyone’s schedules for a third season.
‘I think when you’re all scattered and never sort of cross paths, it’s very, very different,’ reasoned the Moulin Rouge! star.
‘But when you’re all still very intertwined, that’s what makes it doable, because there’s a willingness and you want to spend time together.’
Nicole confirmed plans for a third season of Big Little Lies in November while appearing onstage during the CME Group Tour Championship Friday in Florida.
‘I loved Big Little Lies because it sort of came along at a time in my life when I had my children and I was thinking I was going to retire and then this situation came along, where Reese Witherspoon and I were able to produce that show,’ she said.
‘And then all of you watched it and made it a massive success,’ she told the audience, adding: ‘We will be bringing you a third one, just FYI.’
