Mamma Mia! is i of the most popular musicals to have made the jump to the large screen with non i merely two movies, and with talks almost Mamma Mia 3  floating around in recent years, here's what the chief actors of the potential trilogy have said nearly returning. Dorsum in 2008, the phase musical Mamma Mia! made the bound to the big screen with Phyllida Lloyd as director and a screenplay by Catherine Johnson, based on her book from the 1999 musical. What makes Mamma Mia! stand out from other musicals is that it's based on the songs of ABBA, with additional music by ABBA member Benny Anderson, and this has been primal to its success on stage and on the big screen.

Mamma Mia! follows Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young helpmatehoped-for who decides to invite three men to her upcoming nuptials: Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Harry (Colin Firth), and Beak (Stellan Skarsgård), each ane with the possibility of existence her father. Their arrival is a major shake-upward for Sophie's female parent, Donna (Meryl Streep), who idea she would never meet these men again, and now they are all together, staying at her villa, and preparing to attend her daughter'southward hymeneals. Mamma Mia! was a big box part striking, but disquisitional reception was mixed, with a lot of criticism most the plot and the casting of inexperienced singers. Nonetheless, all this criticism didn't end Mamma Mia! from getting a sequel, and so Mamma Mia! Here We Become Again was released ten years later.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again reunited viewers with Sophie as she prepared for the one thousand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna, in honor of her recently deceased mother. The motion picture jumps dorsum and forth in time to tell the story of how a young Donna (Lily James) met Harry, Neb, and Sam, and it also introduces Donna's mother, Ruby (Cher). Although Mamma Mia! Here We Get Again was a commercial and critical success, information technology was planned to be the closing affiliate in the Mamma Mia! movie serial, but in 2020, producer Judy Craymer announced that a third motion picture was in evolution – and here's what the cast has said about returning for Mamma Mia three.

Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård played Nib Anderson in both Mamma Mia! movies, and he would be up to return for a tertiary adventure. Pecker Anderson is a Swedish sailor and travel writer whose corking-aunt Sofia fabricated it possible for Donna to build her villa in Greece afterward letting her stay in an abased farmhouse she endemic. Speaking to Screen Bluster in 2021 while promoting Dune, Skarsgård said that he doesn't remember he will be effectually if Mamma Mia 3 takes another decade to be made, but if he gets a phone call to make it, he "will say yes immediately" as the feel of the previous movies "was fantastic". Past the end of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Beak reunited with former lover Rosie (Julie Walters), so at that place's still more to explore in his story.

Christine Baranski

Christine Baranski played Tanya Chesham-Leigh, Donna's all-time friend and i of her former bandmates in Donna and the Dynamos, as well every bit a mother figure (forth with Rosie) to Sophie afterwards Donna's death. While promoting the HBO series The Gilded Age, Baranski opened up to EW about returning for Mamma Mia iii, and just like Skarsgård, she's open to it. Baranski emphasized the fun the cast had while filming the first two movies, believing that if they could all "become dorsum and accept the same amount of good fun and be on a Greek island together and dining together", she doesn't recall anybody would say "no" to it. Notwithstanding, she noted that the biggest problem is scheduling and thus getting the cast together, but she suggested a reunion special like those of Friends and Harry Potter, where the cast could just sit down, tell stories, and have fun.

Lily James

Lily James joined the cast of Mamma Mia! as the young version of Donna in Mamma Mia! Here We Become Again. With no story details nearly Mamma Mia 3, it's unknown if there would be room for James to return equally Donna, simply she'southward nevertheless up to reprise her function. Speaking to Screen Rant while promoting the Idiot box series Pam & Tommy, James said she's "desperate" for Mamma Mia 3 to happen, but she doesn't know if her grapheme could be included. James added that it will "probably be similar, Sophie'due south baby", which seems like the well-nigh obvious step for the trilogy, just as Donna is one of the master characters of the story, it's possible Mamma Mia 3 could include flashbacks and thus include James and even Meryl Streep besides.

Dominic Cooper

Dominic Cooper played Heaven Ramand, Sophie'south husband and male parent of her son. Unlike his above-mentioned co-stars, Cooper doesn't seem too enthusiastic about Mamma Mia 3 happening, sharing that he texted the flick'due south producer after ABBA's latest album was released, only he doesn't know if a third moving-picture show will happen. Just like Skarsgård, Cooper joked almost Mamma Mia iii taking another 10 years to happen and he not knowing how he will await like or if he will be effectually. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again saw Sophie and Sky'due south marriage struggling as Sky got a chore in New York and she stayed in Greece, just by the end of the pic, they solved their problems and welcomed their son, Donny.

Colin Firth

Colin Firth played Harry Vivid, a British banker Donna met in Paris and who became one of Sophie's possible fathers. In an interview with GMA, Firth seemed optimistic nearly Mamma Mia 3 happening, as well as a 4th and a fifth motion picture. Firth sees Mamma Mia three as an organic pace for the picture show series, proverb that if y'all "manage to brand a 2d i, I guess you tin make a third, a fourth, and a fifth". Firth added that if people desire it, it could happen, and he would exist upward for reprising his function as Pecker "but to see my friends again on some cute island". With most of the main cast up to return for Mamma Mia three , information technology's only a affair of waiting to run across if the project volition get out of development hell, and hopefully, it won't take some other decade to happen.

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