Shailene Woodley Recalls Laura Dern Call That Convinced Her To Do ‘Big Little Lies’: “Forever Changed My Life”
deadline.comWith the potential third season of Big Little Lies still up in the air, Shailene Woodley is reflecting on how it all started.
The 2x Golden Globe nominee recently gave an update on Season 3 as she recalled how “my sister,” co-star Laura Dern, convinced her to sign on to the HBO series adaptation of Liane Moriarty‘s book, which ran for two seasons from 2017 to 2019. “I got a call, I’ll never forget it.
It was November or October of 2015. I was really sick at the time and I was not at all exhausted by acting or the artistry and the craft of storytelling, but I was really exhausted by the act of Hollywood,” she told Vanity Fair. “And I got a call about Big Little Lies because Jean-Marc Vallée — our beautiful creator, director, who has since passed — had wanted me to play Jane.
And I was desperate to work with him, I thought he was such an incredible artist and filmmaker. But I was really dead-set on ‘finding myself.'” Woodley then got a call from Dern while she was in India. “And she just said, ‘Listen, I know where you’re at in your life.
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