Shailene Woodley Stefanie Keenan/Getty Photographs for TIME
It’s exhausting to think about Big Little Lies with out Shailene Woodley taking part in Jane Chapman, the only mom who moved to Monterey together with her son, Ziggy — however that was nearly a actuality.
Woodley, 32, told Vanity Fair in an interview printed on Thursday, October 31, that she initially handed on the chance to affix the hit HBO collection. As she tells it, she received the decision for the position in late 2015, a time when she was “exhausted by the act of Hollywood.”
“And I received a name about Large Little Lies as a result of Jean-Marc Vallée — our stunning creator, director, who has since handed — had needed me to play Jane. And I used to be determined to work with him, I assumed he was such an unimaginable artist and filmmaker.”
She turned down the position anyway as a result of she needed to take a while to “discover” herself.
Reconsidering the previous? Some actors aren’t pleased with each challenge they’ve been part of — even those that skyrockets their careers. Shailene Woodley scored her massive break on The Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager, however the expertise got here with its personal points. After taking part in teen mom Amy Juergens from 2008 till 2013, […]
Woodley then launched into a three-week backpacking journey to India. However earlier than she left, she received a name from Laura Dern, the actress who would turn into her costar.
Laura Dern Jon Kopaloff/Getty Photographs
“I received a name from Laura the day earlier than I left for India — or possibly I used to be truly already in India and I hadn’t turned my telephone off but. And she or he simply stated, ‘Pay attention, I do know the place you’re at in your life. I’ve been there earlier than too. It’s lots. This world is an phantasm, however what isn’t an phantasm is what you like to do,’” she recalled.
She continued, “‘And what I see in you, Shai, is your function — a minimum of on this second in your life — is to be a storyteller. And I feel it’s an enormous mistake so that you can stroll away from this chance that you just actually ought to lean into.”
The decision from Dern, who performs the outspoken and bold Renata Klein, brought about Woodley to chop her journey overseas brief. The actress mirrored on how the decision from Dern “modified [her] life.”
“In so some ways, I’m grateful for Laura,” she stated. “However that was an enormous second of brave friendship to say, ‘I feel that you just’re making a mistake and I’m gonna be courageous sufficient to inform you why, trigger I actually see you and I see one thing you’ll be able to’t see in your personal life proper now.’”
Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley. Todd Williamson/Getty Photographs
Season 2 of Large Little Lies aired in 2019. At first, HBO president Casey Bloys opined that season 3 in all probability wouldn’t occur due to how tough it’s to coordinate schedules with such a star-studded forged. Along with Woodley and Dern, the present stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, Meryl Streep, Adam Scott, Kathryn Newton and extra.
Issues took an optimistic flip in 2020, nonetheless, when Kidman revealed that Liane Moriarty, who wrote the 2014 novel the present is predicated on, was engaged on a plot for the third season. Within the years since, studies have gone backwards and forwards concerning the present’s future, however Woodley gave followers some hope in her Vainness Honest interview.
“We’ve got a textual content chain going and it’s continually a check-in, each few weeks, ‘Hey, what’s the replace?’ ‘It’s nonetheless occurring,’” she stated. “I maintain being advised that there’s going to be a season 3, however I haven’t learn something but.”
