He was not a Tremendous Trouper.
Christine Baranski has revealed that her “Mamma Mia!” co-star Stellan Skarsgård wasn’t significantly keen on his time engaged on the 2008 movie.
Based mostly on the music of ABBA, the preliminary movie was set on the fictional Greek island of Kalokairi. It adopted a bride, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), who secretly invited three males to the marriage who could be her father: Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Invoice (Skarsgård) and Harry (Colin Firth).
Meryl Streep performed Sophie’s mom, Donna, whereas Baranski performed Tanya, a rich divorcée and Donna’s longtime pal.
Recalling the expertise, Baranski revealed that Skarsgård struggled moving into the dancing spirit — particularly on the finish of the movie when the solid dances to Abba’s 1976 hit observe, “Dancing Queen.”
“I don’t think he’ll mind my saying he hated having to do the dance stuff,” Baranski, 73, stated on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
The “Andor” star revealed that Brosnan, for his half, “was game.”
“[He would] skip down the hill multiple times,” she stated of the James Bond alum, including that Firth “meant all of his moves ironically.”
“When we finally went down the hill in ‘Dancing Queen’ and landed on the dock, the camera would move around and it usually would avoid Stellan,” Baranski added.
Nonetheless, the movie went on to turn out to be a field workplace success that later birthed the second “Mamma Mia!” film, 2018’s ”Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more.”
The sequel — which grossed over $400 million on the international field workplace on a $75 million price range — was directed by Ol Parker, who made it clear to the solid that dancing was non-negotiable.
“You have got to do the moves now — you have simply got to do the moves,” he stated to the actors forward of their close-up pictures.
Because of this, Skarsgård would “let out a string of expletives” in response, Baranski stated.
“It’s as if l had asked him to read Arabic poetry while jumping rope. He was like ‘I can’t do that,’” she added.
In August 2024, Baranski revealed {that a} third movie was within the works.
“I was in London with [producer] Judy Kramer at our favorite watering hole, [and] she is planning ‘Mamma Mia 3.’ She gave me the narrative plot line of how it’s going to happen,” she informed the Hollywood Reporter.
“The Gilded Age” star defined that Kramer was the kind of producer who “makes things happen” as an alternative of claiming that she “[wishes] it could happen.”
