The Dear mother! the actors are waiting for the call to return for another installment.
Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and other members of the cast and crew spoke with Vogue for an oral history in honor of the 15th anniversary of the 2008 film musical (Interviews were conducted prior to the ongoing actors’ strike.)
Producer Judy Craymer said “there has to be another one because people want it” but “the problem is we’re all getting older”.
“But,” Craymer added, “we couldn’t be in a better place as far as a cast that’s eager to do it.”
Seyfried, 37, who played Sophie, told the newspaper: “I challenge you to show me one person who doesn’t want a third Dear mother! ”
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Although her character Donna was killed off in the 2018 sequel Dear mother! Here we are againStreep, 74, said “if there’s an idea that excites me, I’m all for it.”
“I’m ready for anything,” the Oscar winner said of the sequel. “… I told Judy if she can figure out a way to reincarnate Donna, I’d love that. Or it could be like one of those soap operas where Donna comes back and finds out that her twin sister really died.”
Streep joked, “We might have to call Grand-Mamma Mia! until we succeed!”
Meryl Streep in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” (2018).
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Dominic Cooper, who played Seyfried’s lover Sky in both films, said the Streep actress was “definitely upset that she wasn’t in most of the second film”.
He added: “She understood the story was going in that direction, but I remember her saying, ‘Well, I didn’t want to be dead.”
Craymer said she was “being bashed on social media for killing Meryl,” but, she clarified, “I promise I didn’t do it on purpose.”
“She was hesitant to do another movie because she doesn’t usually do sequels,” Craymer said. “But I know she loved going back to shoot her scenes Here we are again! She felt the love around her and the joy of meeting those people again, so I think that made her more open to the possibility of a third.”
Craymer shared some potential storylines for the second installment, explaining that she is “definitely” painting Dear mother! as a trilogy.
“We went back and forth through time with the other, so now we have creative license to explore this world further,” Craymer said. “We still don’t really know what happened to the Lily James version of Donna in those middle years. Or what happens to Donna and Sam after the first movie? Will Harry ever settle down?”
“I think we need to bring these characters closer together,” added the producer. All their odysseys lead them back to the island, because they all want to be there in their old age.
Firth (63), Brosnan (70) and Stellan Skarsgård (in Harry, Sam and Bill) have also expressed interest in reprising their roles.
“I’d be there like a gun for all the reasons I gave about the joys of making the first two movies,” Firth said. “There just has to be a good enough idea to bring us back together. It doesn’t have to be a good idea in any lofty sense, but it just has to be a good enough script to give us another shot.”
Brosnan said: “Judy knows where to find me if they want a third time. I think everyone would feel the same way if she said, ‘I have a story, I have a script.’ We’d all do it in a heartbeat.”
Skarsgård, 72, added: “I doubt any of us would hesitate to do another one. It’s just a matter of finding enough songs to come up with a new story.” He also joked: “I’ll be in the urn until there’s a script for Mamma Mia 3but I will gladly participate as a pile of ashes.”
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