“Big Little Lies” Third Seaon Is On The Way, Nicole Kidman Confirms It

According to Nicole Kidman, a third season of Big Little Lies is being developed.

For years, there have been rumors of a third season of the program, and recently, Kidman seemed to confirm that it will be returning.

Kidman gave an explanation for why the series was one of her favorite projects of her career in a video clip posted by the Instagram account DeuxMoi. The clip shows the actor being interviewed on stage during a Q&A session.

“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.”

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

Nicole Kidman confirms a third season of Big Little Lies is in the works via @deuxmoiworld's Instagram story pic.twitter.com/UyfVkhrWnu

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Alongside fellow executive producer Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz, and Shailene Woodley, the 56-year-old Oscar winner both appeared in and served as an executive producer on the popular HBO version of Liane Moriarty’s thriller.

The show premiered in 2017 and followed the lives of a group of wealthy parents in Monterey, California, whose seemingly ideal existence is thrown into upheaval when someone close to them is murdered.

Big Little Lies, which was adapted for the small screen by David E Kelley, ended up earning a clutch of awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Kidman. A second season followed in 2019, with Meryl Streep joining the already star-studded cast as Kidman’s on-screen mother-in-law.

Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in ‘Big Little Lies’ / HBO

Last year, Witherspoon revealed that she and her fellow cast members talk about a third instalment of Big Little Lies “all the time”, but the death of season one director Jean-Marc Vallée had been “really hard” on the group.

Vallée, who also directed films including Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, died in 2021 at the age of 58. The cause of death was attributed to “a fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to severe coronary atherosclerosis” after a final 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 told 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.”