Shailene Woodley Reveals This A-Lister Was the Reason She Joined 'Big Little Lies'

If you’re anything like us, you might need a friend, a family member, or even a coworker to motivate you to keep going sometimes. For Shailene Woodley, Oscar-winner Laura Dern became that person when she almost turned down her role as Jane in Big Little Lies.

“I got a call, I’ll never forget it,” Woodley said of the opportunity in an interview with Vanity Fair. “It was November or October of 2015, I was really sick at the time and I was not at all exhausted by acting or the artistry and the craft of storytelling...