Jane Campion: Top of the Lake inspired Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to do Big Little Lies

The Ringer

The acclaimed filmmaker says she loves what she's seen on the small screen, especially Big Little Lies, which she says Top of the Lake helped paved the way for. But, she adds, “I really didn’t like Westworld.” She says of the TV renaissance: “There’s an intelligent audience for television [right now] that is robust, who do not get spooked easily and who enjoy this stuff. They can take it. And they’re smart.”