Young Sheldon’s Iain Armitage Gushes About ‘Big Little Lies’ Co-Stars, Shares His Thoughts on Season 3 & If He’d Return for More (Exclusive Clip) | Big Little Lies, Exclusive, Iain Armitage | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Young Sheldon‘s Iain Armitage is spilling details on Big Little Lies, working with all those amazing actresses, and the potential for a third season.
The 16-year-old actor was a guest on the season four premiere episode of “The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul” podcast, and we have an exclusive video clip from his episode. The episode was released today to kick off World Kindness Week.
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First, Iain was asked about co-starring in the HBO hit, which aired season 1 in 2017. He portrayed Ziggy Chapman, the son of Shailene Woodley‘s character. The series also starred Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Kravitz, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep in season 2, and more.
About the all-star cast, he said, “I knew how insane that was and how incredible those people I got to see and act with were, but also, at the same time, I’m still sort of shocked that I got to be a part of that.”
He added, “But really at the heart of it all was by far at the heart of it all was our director Jean-Marc Vallée who was I think the best director I’ve ever worked with…All of those incredible shots of you know, of the colors he used, all the sort of everything was all, it was all from his heart and every project he worked on, he did so many incredible projects and I highly recommend you go down a JMV rabbit hole and see the stuff he’s worked on because he was incredible.”
He continued, “I am forever, you know, just forever grateful to him for the incredible experience with Big Little Lies. And he didn’t direct the second season, but he edited the second season…nothing compares to his style of directing, his vision. He was so inspired and such a cool, kind guy. I think his heart was so big and he had so much love to give. I’m insanely impressed and very honored to have gotten to meet him.”
Jean-Marc sadly passed away in 2021 at the age of 58.
Iain said, “But also getting to work with those ladies, I mean…I don’t want to use ‘diva’ in a negative connotation. They are, I guess, prima donna. I don’t know. I don’t even know a word that can compare to how glorious and magnificent the people that I got to work with on that show were. Every single person was so talented and just so wonderful. And again, so down to earth and so humble. I think I’ve never met an actually talented, famous, good actor who is really seriously conceited or vain or not humble. It’s interesting. I think it’s one of those things where you see the jobs of everyone else on set and then you see your job and you realize that you are another person on set. And it would be stupid to be conceited about your role on a film set.”
He then responded to word that there’s a third season on the way.
He said he “thinks” it is coming, but added, “First of all, I don’t know exactly when, and second of all, I don’t know how they’re gonna do it without [Jean-Marc Vallée]. Because even in the second season where he didn’t direct, he edited it….I think it is going to happen. I think there will be a third season at some point. One that I would love to be on, but I have no idea of anything aside from the fact that it, there’s a very solid chance it would happen.”
