Back in the '70s, budding actress Meryl Streep played a woman ill-treated by the Nazis¹ in TV miniseries Holocaust².

 

上世纪70年代，新生代女演员梅丽尔-斯特里普在电视连续短剧《大屠杀》中出演了一位被纳粹虐待的女性。
 

 

Four decades on, the star of The Post and The Iron Lady is returning to the small screen - in Big Little Lies.

 

Streep will join fellow Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in the hit HBO drama. According to HBO, Streep will play the mother of Alexander Skarsgard's character.

 

Kidman - who has won a string of awards for her performance in Big Little Lies including an Emmy and Screen Actors Guild³ prize - welcomed Streep on Instagram.

 

Laura Dern, who won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her work in the show, also expressed delight at the news, saying her "acting⁴ dream had come true".

 

Witherspoon, meanwhile, said she was "beyond thrilled" that Streep was joining the cast, adding that Monterey - the show's Californian setting - had "better watch out".

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