Mamma Mia star Christine Baranski reveals which…
He was not a Super Trouper.
Christine Baranski has revealed that her “Mamma Mia!” co-star Stellan Skarsgård wasn’t notably fond of his time working on the 2008 movie.
Based on the music of ABBA, the initial 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), Bill (Skarsgård) and Harry (Colin Firth).
Christine Baranski has revealed that her “Mamma Mia!” co-star Stellan Skarsgård wasn’t notably fond of his time working on the 2008 movie. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Meryl Streep performed Sophie’s mom, Donna, while Baranski performed Tanya, a rich divorcée and Donna’s longtime buddy.
Recalling the expertise, Baranski revealed that Skarsgård struggled getting into the dancing spirit — particularly at the top of the movie when the forged 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.”
Skarsgård would “let out a string of expletives” in response to being requested to dance, according to Baranski. Getty Images for Disney
“[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.
Still, the movie went on to turn into a box workplace success that later birthed the second “Mamma Mia!” film, 2018’s ”Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.”
Based on the music of ABBA, the 2008 movie was set on the fictional Greek island of Kalokairi. Universal Studios
The sequel grossed over $400 million at the worldwide box workplace on a $75 million finances. Universal footage
The sequel — which grossed over $400 million at the worldwide box workplace on a $75 million finances — was directed by Ol Parker, who made it clear to the forged 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 photographs.
As a end result, 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 in the works.
The initial movies also stars Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried and Julie Walters, among others. WireImage
“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 instructed the Hollywood Reporter.
“The Gilded Age” star defined that Kramer was the kind of producer who “makes things happen” as an alternative of saying that she “[wishes] it could happen.”
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