Two more stars have joined Big Little Lies, the HBO mini-series which already has Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon.
On Wednesday, Variety confirmed that Witherspoon’s Wild co-star Laura Dern will star in the series. The Hollywood Reporter also reports that Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Krampus) will also star.
Kidman and Witherspoon began developing the project in August 2014 and HBO scored the star-studded project in May 2015. Shailene Woodley also joined this month.
Big Little Lies is based on the novel by Liane Moriarty and will be adapted by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice). It centers on three mothers with children in kindergarten whose lives are shaken by a murder. Scott will play the husband of Witherspoon’s character, while Dern will star as an anti-bullying crusader.
The project is more than a reunion of two Wild stars as director Jean-Marc Vallee has been hired to helm the series.
Dern was last seen on HBO in Enlightened, which only lasted two season but still earned the actress a Golden Globe.