At last night’s Golden Globes award ceremony, Reese Witherspoon confirmed to Variety that she’s “working” on season three of Big Little Lies.
Reese attended the event because The Morning Show, an Apple TV+ production in which she stars as a broadcaster, had received two nominations. It was her seventh Golden Globe nomination.
The series, which focused on a group of women who become involved in a homicide investigation, was first released on HBO in 2017 and appeared to have wrapped up at the end of season two in 2019.
Season one director Jean-Marc Vallée also died in 2021, which Reese said had a big impact on the tight-knit cast.
“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,” Reese told The Hollywood Reporter.
“But Jean-Marc Vallée’s passing was really hard on us,” she added in the 2022 interview. “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.”
However, rumours of a third season had spread before
There had been speculation about a third season of the show since Nicole Kidman, who co-stars in Big Little Lies, teased a new release in November of last year.
During a Q&A at the CME Group Tour Championship, Nicole said “We will be bringing you a third [season], just FYI.”
In fact, Nicole had referenced a third season as far back as 2020, when she revealed that though the cast were busy with other projects, they were all hoping to reunite.
“Everyone’s working. Hopefully we can collide again at one point,” she said at the time.
“It would be great to get the band back together at some point but right now everybody is so busy and there’s no idea, where we’re all saying ‘that makes perfect sense’. I think it’s more of one of those ‘someday’ [questions],” Casey Bloys, now-CEO of HBO, told Deadline in the same 2020 interview.
It’s good to hear that that “someday” is definitely coming soon...
UK viewers can watch seasons 1 and 2 of Big Little Lies on Spectrum On Demand or Max Amazon Channel.