Meryl Streep Joins the Cast of ‘Big Little Lies’<br />In “Big Little Lies,” Ms. Streep’s character comes to the show’s beachside California town “searching<br />for answers” following the death of her son, Perry, played by Alexander Skarsgard.<br />Meryl Streep has been cast in the Emmy-winning HBO series, the network said Wednesday, joining Nicole Kidman<br />and Reese Witherspoon as television continues to attract major stars.<br />Though HBO hasn’t announced the rest of the cast, the network said it expected that most of the actors from the first season would return.<br />HBO has not said when it expects the show to return but the earliest it could be on the air would be 2019.
