Meryl Streep Joins 'Big Little Lies' Season 2
by EG
The hit HBO series already had a stellar cast, but it just got an even bigger star for its upcoming second season. The cable network announced this week that Meryl Streep will be a regular in the series' second season and that she will play the mother of Alexander Skarsgard's character. It's interesting that Streep will be joining the show, given that Big Little Lies is often put forward as an example of a new female empowerment movement in Hollywood and that Streep has had a complicated relationship with the leaders of that movement.
Via Page Six.
Casting coups don’t get much bigger than this: Meryl Streep is joining “Big Little Lies'” forthcoming second season as a series regular, TVLine has learned. The three-time Oscar winner will play Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Alexander Skarsgard’s deceased character, Perry.
“Concerned for the well-being of her grandchildren following her son’s death, Mary Louise arrives in Monterey searching for answers,” per HBO. Translation: Expect some explosive scenes between Streep and recent Emmy winner Nicole Kidman. (Streep and Kidman starred together in 2002’s “The Hours.”)
In teasing Streep’s “Big Little Lies” storyline, HBO puts to rest speculation that Skarsgard’s Perry might’ve somehow survived that fatal fall in the Season 1 finale. Still, As TVLine reported earlier this week, Skarsgard is expected to reprise his Emmy-winning role, most likely via flashbacks.
This is not Streep’s first foray into television. She starred in HBO’s 2003 adaptation of “Angels in America” and also lent her voice to episodes of “King Of The Hill” and “The Simpsons.”
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