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Crushing the hopes of Big Little Lies fans, Zoë Kravitz precocious revealed the HBO bid is "unfortunately done" aft 2 seasons and countless awards.
If "Big Little Lies" Went Down IRL
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After a instrumentality asked Zoë Kravitz if Big Little Lies would beryllium coming backmost for different play during a Q&A, the histrion revealed the destiny of the mega-popular series and the "heart-breaking" reason behind its ending.
"I don't deliberation it is" returning, she replied successful a TikTok video posted by GQ. "We talked astir doing a season three a batch and, unfortunately, Jean-Marc Vallée, our incredible director, passed distant this past twelvemonth and I conscionable can't ideate going connected without him."
The 33-year-old continued, "He truly was the visionary for that show. So, unfortunately, it's done."
Big Little Lies—based connected the 2014 caller of the aforesaid sanction by Liane Moriarty—premiered connected HBO successful 2017. Along with Kravitz, the amusement starred Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern as 5 women successful Monterey, Calif. who go embroiled successful a execution investigation.
The archetypal season, primitively presented arsenic a miniseries, received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won eight, including Outstanding Limited Series, a directing grant for Vallée and acting awards for Kidman, Dern and Alexander Skarsgård.
The amusement retuned two years aboriginal for a 2nd play with Meryl Streep joining the main formed and Andrea Arnold stepping into the director's chair.
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On Christmas Day successful 2021, Vallée died astatine the property of 58 from "a fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to terrible coronary atherosclerosis," according to a household statement. Following the tragic news, the show's formed shared their condolences connected societal media, including Kidman who called the manager "the halfway of my originative universe."
"I can't overstate his value to me," she wrote connected Instagram on with posted a bid of photos with Vallée. "Jean-Marc was not lone liable for immoderate of the astir rewarding nonrecreational experiences of my career, but his friendship, kindness and emotion were an inspiring unit I volition transportation with me."
The actress added, "I volition ever cherish those nights filming supra the crashing waves of Big Sur. It doesn't get amended than that."
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