Nicole Kidman lets slip that new season of Big Little Lies is within the works

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Nicole Kidman has stated {that a} third season of Big Little Lies is within the works.

The Oscar winner, 56, starred in and served as an govt producer on the hit HBO adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s thriller, showing alongside fellow govt producer Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz and Shailene Woodley.

The sequence debuted in 2017 and adopted the lives of a bunch of rich dad and mom in Monterey, California, whose seemingly excellent existence is thrown into disarray when somebody on the coronary heart of their neighborhood is murdered.

Big Little Lies, which was tailored for the small display screen by David E Kelley, ended up incomes a clutch of awards, together with an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Kidman. A second season adopted in 2019, with Meryl Streep becoming a member of the already star-studded solid as Kidman’s on-screen mother-in-law.

Rumours of a 3rd outing for the present have been swirling for years and Kidman appeared to verify that the sequence might be returning throughout a latest occasion.

In a video clip shared by the Instagram account DeuxMoi, displaying the actor being interviewed on stage as a part of a query and reply occasion, Kidman defined why the sequence was one in every of her favorite initiatives of her profession.

“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 stated. “And then all of you watched it and made it a massive success.”

“And we will be bringing you a third one, just FYI,” she then added.

The Independent has contacted Kidman’s representatives for additional remark.

Last yr, Witherspoon revealed that she and her fellow solid members discuss a 3rd instalment of Big Little Lies “all the time”, however the loss of life of season one director Jean-Marc Vallée had been “really hard” on the group.

Vallée, who additionally directed movies together with Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, died in 2021 on the age of 58. The reason behind loss of life was attributed to “a fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to severe coronary atherosclerosis” after a ultimate coroner’s report.

“Somebody asked me the other day, ‘What co-stars do you talk to more than any other?’ It’s absolutely the Big Little Lies cast,” Witherspoon informed The Hollywood Reporter.  “We’re always talking and texting.

“But Jean-Marc Vallée’s passing was really hard on us,” she continued. “He was our collaborator. He was our friend. He was our brother.

“So much of that series was born of his imagination and his creativity, so it is hard to imagine a future without him. But there is certainly a deep desire for all of us to connect and create those characters again.”