As Amanda Seyfried anticipates a return to one in every of her most beloved roles, the fantasy casting for her new co-stars has begun.
Whereas sharing an replace on a possible third installment within the Mamma Mia! film musical franchise, the Oscar nominee addressed the probability that Sabrina Carpenter may be part of the forged.
“Mamma Mia 3, let’s go child,” Seyfried informed ABC Information, crossing her fingers for luck. “All people says it’s gonna occur. However I imply, I haven’t seen a script.”
After Carpenter sang the musical’s title monitor by ABBA at a current Madison Sq. Backyard live performance, Seyfried agreed the Brief n’ Candy artist may “technically” play her character Sophie’s daughter in an upcoming followup.
Though Seyfried is simply 13 years older than Carpenter, the interviewer famous that “age is form of a forgettable assemble” within the franchise after Cher performed Meryl Streep‘s mother within the earlier movie, regardless of solely being three years aside.
Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more (2018).
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“You’re proper, really, [it] doesn’t matter,” stated Seyfried. “You realize what? Previous age make-up for me. That’s what will probably be. … I’m an actor. I’ll do it. If Sabrina Carpenter needs to play my daughter, I’ll make it occur. It’s effective. I’m an enormous fan.”
Primarily based on the Tony-nominated jukebox musical, Mamma Mia! (2008) follows Seyfried’s Sophie as she prepares for her wedding ceremony at her mom Donna’s (Streep) resort on the Greek island Kalokairi. What Donna doesn’t know is that Sophie has invited the three males (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård) who may doubtlessly be the daddy she by no means met, hoping he’ll stroll her down the aisle.
The 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more adopted flashbacks of a younger Donna’s (Lily James) romance with the three males in 1979, when she first arrives on the island. Within the current, Sophie prepares to reopen her not too long ago deceased mom’s resort, for which her grandmother Ruby (Cher) makes a shock look.
Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper and Cher in Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more (2018).
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In Might, Streep informed Deadline that talks are “imminent” for the sequel, including that “they’ve an thought” for the script.
Final September, she informed Vogue she’s “up for something” on the subject of reprising Donna. “If there’s an concept that excites me, I’m completely there,” she added.
“I informed [producer Judy Craymer] if she may determine a strategy to reincarnate Donna, I’m into that,” famous Streep. “Or it may very well be like in a type of cleaning soap operas the place Donna comes again and divulges it was actually her twin sister that died.”
Craymer famous the following film may observe “Lily James’s model of Donna in these center years. Or what occurs to Donna and Sam after the primary film.”
Common Footage Chairman Donna Langley stated the studio “would like to make a 3rd film.” In the meantime, producer Gary Goetzman stated there had “been some conversations” a couple of third movie, including: “I actually suppose it’ll occur.”
