Shailene Woodley Almost Missed Out on 'Big Little Lies'

In a recent interview, Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley admitted that she nearly walked away from acting before she was picked for a role in the big HBO series. Read on to find out what made her change her mind.

Via People.

Shailene Woodley almost didn’t star in HBO’s hit show Big Little Lies.

The star, 26, opened up about why she came close to turning her back on acting after filming 2016’s Allegiant.

“There was a point in my life, right before Big Little Lies, where I had hit a wall with acting,” she told Porter Edit. “I felt it was time to do something different. I called my agents and said, ‘Please don’t send me any more scripts; I need to explore other avenues.'”

“They respected me and didn’t send me anything for almost a year until Big Little Lies,” Woodley said. “I didn’t know what it was or who was involved, I just said, ‘Thanks, I’m still not interested.'”

Her refusal to read the script might have ended things before they began, but her agents insisted she read it before she said no, telling her Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern were involved.

“I read it, fell in love with it, and Laura, who I had worked with on The Fault in Our Stars, called me and that was really the push,” she said.

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