-I go, "How do they top this?"
David E. Kelley. Well written, well directed.
-I'm so happy you -- You genuinely love it.
That makes me so happy. -Oh, dude. Soundtrack.
-The soundtrack is ridiculous.
-All that soul music is great.
-I can't even tell you how many yoga classes I've been in
though, now, since "Big Little Lies" Season 1.
and it's, like... [ Hums theme ]
...as you're in shavasana, and you're trying to like relax
at the end of the class. -"I'm in the show!
Shut it off!" -You just start laughing.
-I'm trying to calm down.
And I go, "There's no way they can top Season 1."
-Yeah. -Enter Meryl Streep.
Okay.
How the hell did you get Meryl Streep?!
And I go, "Oh, my gosh." And she crushes it.
-Oh, she's so good. -Last night, premiered.
No spoilers. I won't say anything.
-The way that she even, like --
She changed her face for the show.
-She's talking like that,
and she has these, like, thick eyeglasses.
Something's up with her.
[ Laughter ] -A little bit.
-Something's up with Meryl Streep's character,
and I'm frightened of Meryl Streep.
And I go, "Wow. That was such a good choice."
What is she like on set?
Does she just come in, laser beam,
and just blow things up?
-You know what's so amazing about her?
People are always like, you know,
what was it like working with Meryl Streep?
Was it intimidating?
And I think because she's probably used
to people treating her like "Meryl Streep"
instead of just approaching her as a human --
she's so wonderfully generous
and immediately disarms you with her generosity
that you sort of forget for a moment
that you're working with a master of her craft.
And then the cameras start rolling,
and she does the thing, and, all of a sudden,
you go, "Oh, God.
What am I doing? I gotta get my stuff together."
Because she is so good,
and she is like a little kid on a set
in the sense of, I think,
no matter how long she's been doing this
and no matter how many accolades and awards she's garnered,
she just genuinely loves acting.
-Yeah. -She loves storytelling.
She loves -- And I call it a craft.
Like, she's a master woman at her craft.
-She goes in with her eyes wide open,
and she goes, "Yeah, let's see what I can do with this."
-She also -- This is my favorite memory
from the entire Season 2 is,
we're filming episode six or seven.
and it's the very end of the whole thing,
and she comes up, and it's me and Nicole,
Reese, Laura, Zoe, sitting there,
and she goes, "I wonder what this line on page three
has to do with this line on page seven, hmm."
And she walks away, and all of us were like, huh?
And we go through our scripts, and we're like, "Holy [bleep].
how'd she find -- how'd she do that?
How did she connect those dots?"
Like, she just reads scripts differently
that anyone I've ever, ever known.
-And just connected -- She knew someone was gonna --
-She gave us an entire beat
that all of us had missed. -And then magically disappeared?
-And then she was like, "I'm going to go to crafty
for a minute." -Yeah.
-See ya. See ya on the flip side.
-Yeah, see ya on the flip side. [ Chuckling ] Yeah.
It's just, honestly, I just love it.
Can we say anything about what this season is about
or not really?
-I mean, if I was the one to ruin everything,
that would not be good. -You'd be in trouble.
-Yeah, I'm like the totem poll of "Big Little Lies" --
-Well, have you guys seen it? Have most of you seen it?
[ Cheers and applause ]
It follows these different moms at school.
And they're rich and --
Some of them are. Most of them are.
It's Monterey. It's gorgeous.
And you go, "Wow, they have the perfect life."
-And then you understand their psychology,
and you go, you know what?
No matter how much money someone has,
no matter what they own,
no matter what their family looks like,
we're all broken.
We're all suffering.
We're all, like, in desperate need of healing.
-All trying. -Yeah.
We're trying to do the best we can.
And we're messy. -Yeah, and it gets tricky.
It gets real messy. -Real messy.
-It gets -- yeah. So, then --
Yeah, but I think it's out there
that Meryl Streep comes back, and she wants to know
what happened after the first season.
which I don't want to don't spoil.
-Good job.
That's why I don't usually say anything,
because I end up --
-She wants to know what went down,
but she's got the way she's talking and her glasses.
[ Light laughter ] And the scream!
She did the scream last night.
She's like, "Oh, yeah. It makes me want to just scream."
'Aaah!'" [ Light laughter ]
And I jumped. And, like, ever--
Well, she didn't sound like James Brown,
but she sounded like Meryl Streep,
when Meryl Streep screams.
And it was just -- Ah, I'm just blown away.
I love the cast,
I love the show, and I love you.
Here's a clip of Shailene Woodley
in Season 2 of "Big Little Lies."
Take a look at this.
-A little advice --
You probably don't want to act weird in public.
We do a lot of kids' events at the aquarium,
and parents have a thing about entrusting
their kids to psychos.
-[ Chuckles ]
Noted. Got it. thank you.
-The way people talk in this town,
I don't need to tell you.
-You don't need to tell me? What does that mean?
-You're one of the Monterey Five, right?
-Monterey Five?
-You were there the night the guy fell.
-Where did you hear that?
-Someone at work.
I'll see you around.
-Yeah.
-Uh-oh! It's juicy this season! Shailene Woodley, everybody.