Big Little Lies

WARNING: This post contains spoilers from the Big Little Lies season finale. Read at your own risk! Nicole Kidman agreed to play Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies when she first met the novel’s author, Liane Moriarty, and they struck a deal: If the Academy Award-winning actress would play the lawyer-turned-abused-housewife, Moriarty would grant her and Reese Witherspoon the rights to the project. That agreement led Kidman down a rabbit hole of despair, […]

She had learned not to get excited. Australian author Liane Moriarty had gone through the process of having a book optioned for a movie or TV series before and had endured the realities of it getting lost in Hollywood development purgatory. Moriarty, though, had never done business with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman. “When I met with Nicole, she was like, ‘No, no, no. If we option it, get excited. […]