The other actors also shared effusive photos of the event to publicise the latest instalment of the hit HBO show, airing in June.

“My friends are, like, really cool,” Zoë Kravitz wrote on her Instagram, while Laura Dern added, “the band’s back together!”

Kidman drew attention to the latest addition to the show, “the incomparable Meryl Streep”, who joins in season two as the mother-in-law to Kidman’s character, Celeste.

Apparently, off-shoot, Streep is chief storyteller in this impressive squad of friends - “Meryl tells incredible stories,” Witherspoon revealed - but Streep would only say, “What happens in Monterey stays in Monterey.”

Big Little Lies 2 is an ode to female friendship