There may not be a third season Big little liesbut some of the Monterey Five had their own little reunion this weekend.
On Sunday, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz were photographed enjoying lunch together in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The actresses were all dressed casually as they reunited, with Dern wearing jeans, a blue blouse and tie, and Witherspoon in jeans, a casual black sweater and sunglasses. Kravitz remained particularly low-key in an all-black outfit with sunglasses and a hat.
After their meal ended, Dern, 56, and Kravitz, 34, left the restaurant together while Witherspoon, 47, drove off separately.
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Sunday’s brunch marks the second time in two months that Dern and Kravitz have been seen together in public. In September, the pair joined A-list friend Taylor Swift for dinner at Il Buco Alimentara in New York.
In the hit HBO series — which premiered in 2017 and is based on Liane Moriarty’s book of the same name — Witherspoon played mother-of-two Madeline Mackenzie, while Kravitz portrayed Bonnie Carlson, a young yogi who marries Madeline’s ex-husband Nathan. Dern played the sometimes overbearing and ultra-mom bear Renata Klein.
Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep attend the 2019 “Big Little Lies” Season 2 Premiere.
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Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley rounded out the Monterey Five as Celeste Wright and Jane Chapman. Witherspoon, Kidman and Woodley’s characters formed a strong friendship at the beginning of the first season, while Kravitz’s Bonnie was more of an outsider and Dern’s Renata was the primary antagonist of the mom trio.
The series ended after its second season in 2019, and while most of the cast expressed interest in continuing the story, an HBO executive said a third installment was “not realistic.”
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In December 2021, the director and executive producer of the series, Jean-Marc Vallée, died suddenly, and the possibility of a continuation of the series was completely dismissed.
Almost a year later, Kravitz admitted to the GQ interview that the cast “talked a lot about filming Season 3,” but said the “heartbreaking” death of their “amazing director” made that impossible.
“I can’t imagine going on without him,” she said. “He was really the visionary of that show. Unfortunately, it’s over.”
Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern star in the HBO series ‘Big Little Lies’.
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The Big little lies the stars have often shown their love and support for each other in the four years since the series ended. At Kravitz’s wedding to her now ex-husband Karl Glusman, the group of five reunited and Batman the actress posted a cute photo of the actresses sharing a hug. Dern commented on the since-deleted post that the wedding – which doubles as a reunion – was “the most special day”.
In 2017, Witherspoon, who served as a producer and helped launch the Emmy-winning series, told PEOPLE of the all-star ensemble, “It’s become a really interesting group of women whose work I’ve always loved.”
“Working with them every day was a pleasure,” she added. “I learned so much from each of them.”
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Kidman also praised her co-stars when she told News Corp Australia ahead of the series finale: “I’m so glad the show has found its way because there really isn’t anything on TV with six female leads.”
She added: “I don’t know where the show is, so it’s been amazing to have the support now. It’s never going to be perfect, but gosh, it’s so great to have six female leads in one show.”
Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley won the 2018 Golden Globe for ‘Big Little Lies’.
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Witherspoon, Dern and Kravitz’s lunch date comes just two weeks after PEOPLE confirmed that Kravitz is engaged to her boyfriend of two years, Channing Tatum.
Multiple sources told PEOPLE exclusively that the couple recently agreed to say “I do” nearly three years after they were first seen holding hands in January 2021. Kravitz split from Glusman in December 2020.
She said GQ last year that Tatum, 43, is “just a wonderful man” and that he was her “protector” on the set of her directorial debut, Pussy Island.
“He makes me laugh and we both really love art and talking about art and exploring why we do what we do,” Kravitz said before adding that having worked on the film, “We came out even stronger.”
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