Laura Dern’s name confuses Reese Witherspoon, whose specified identify just isn’t Reese at all

Reese Witherspoon’s real title is a huge minimal lie that co-star Nicole Kidman just put an finish to.

The “Big Little Lies” co-stars — who just verified that a 3rd year of the acclaimed HBO drama is a go — also established the document straight about Witherspoon’s given initially identify, which isn’t Reese at all.

The Oscar winners have been discussing their recent projects, their friendship and the future “BLL” time with Assortment when Witherspoon transpired to refer to co-star Laura Dern as “Dern.”

“I detest how you simply call her ‘Dern’ however!,” Kidman interjected. “Because it appears odd.”

“You know why?” Witherspoon reported. “Because my name is Laura, and her identify is Laura, and it is confusing to me.” That is right: Tiny Tracy Flick’s entire offered name is Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon.

“So I get baffled and just call her Dern,” she claimed. “We can’t both equally be Laura.”

(Witherspoon is one particular of a quantity of actors identified by a phase title famously and by a given title to co-stars and buddies. Fellow Oscar winner Emma Stone a short while ago unveiled that her supplied name, the a single she goes by in genuine lifestyle, is Emily. Alas, another person experienced joined the actors union very first below the title “Emily Stone,” and union names can not be recurring, so “Emma Stone” was born.)

During their discussion, Witherspoon and Kidman also let a handful of tidbits slip about Year 3.

Kidman had presently hinted in 2019 at far more “BLL” to come, then said at the premiere of her new series “Expats” that she and Witherspoon had been “texting each and every day” about the HBO show’s impending year. “This one has presently explained much too substantially!” Witherspoon exclaimed.

“We’re moving speedy and furious. Liane is offering the book,” Kidman spelled out, referring to Liane Moriarty, who wrote the novel on which the show’s to start with two seasons had been primarily based. “We’re in excellent shape.”

In addition to Kidman, Witherspoon and, properly, Dern, the forged of “Big Tiny Lies” includes Shailene Woodleigh and Zoë Kravitz. Meryl Streep joined the solid in Time 2.