Tom also previously admitted he auditioned for a role in the original movie but was ultimately rejected because of his singing voice. Read on to see the stunning photos of Tom and Rita at the movie premiere, and prepare your eyes for some serious couple goals. Related: The Mamma Mia!
In the first "Mamma Mia" movie, Andersson played the piano on the dock while the cast performed "Dancing Queen." Ulvaeus appeared in the ending credits as a Greek god during the cast's performance of "Waterloo."
Pierce Brosnan. Enter our leading man. Playing the charismatic Sam Carmichael, Pierce Brosnan took the mantle as Streep's leading love interest in Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia!
The movie stars Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, and Amanda Seyfried. The actors also lent their vocal talents to the soundtrack of the movie musical which had already wowed audiences worldwide.
Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy, Busy Phillips, Evan Rachel Wood, Jessica Biel, Kirsten Dunst, Leighton Meester, Mandy Moore, Zooey Deschanel were also named in Vogue's feature for having auditioned for the role of Sophie.
Craymer told Entertainment Weekly that Streep "was hesitant about doing another film because she doesn't typically do sequels." It makes sense for an Academy Award-winning actor to feel this way, as Streep probably always wants to keep her filmography fresh for her career.
In the film, there are three possibilities - Harry, Sam, and Bill - but we never actually get a confirmation. After each of the men form a strong bond with Sophie, they ultimately decide that they don't want to know the true paternity and agree to all be one-third of a father to her.
Canonically, from flashbacks in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Donna only slept with Harry and Bill once each, whereas she spent a week with Sam. This makes it more likely statistically for Sam to be Sophie's biological dad.
No. The film and stage show are very loosely based on a 1968 Gina Lollobrigida movie called Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell. Meryl Streep plays Donna, a former hippie and free spirit who runs a B&B on a horrendous Shirley-Valentine-style Greek island. Her 20-year-old daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfield) is about to get married.
Inspiration. Mamma Mia!, with a book by Catherine Johnson and music and lyrics from Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus, is a musical based around the music from the band, ABBA, of which, Andersson and Ulvaeus were both members.
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, were executive producers of both "Mamma Mia" and "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again." Meryl Streep really did the splits in the first film. Meryl Streep said that it was "instinct" that allowed her to do splits in the first film, although she's not sure she could replicate it now.
Explaining his decision to cast Cher, 72, as the mother of Meryl Streep, 69, in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, despite a mere three-year age gap between the two actresses, writer-director Ol Packer explained simply that “Cher exists outside of time”. A fascinating hypothesis.
Sophie later decides to have Donna walk her down the aisle as she and her mother prepare for the wedding. As the wedding proceeds, Sophie and Sky decide not to get married right away, and instead leave the island and tour the world.
The first movie establishes that Donna hooked up with her three suitors in the following order: Sam, the evening before July 17; Bill, the evening before August 4; and Harry, August 11. In the flashbacks of young Donna, she has sex with Harry first, then Sam, and then Bill.
Fans of the original movie will outright bawl their eyes out. If the first film is right, then Sofia is Bill's great-aunt. If the timeline is to be believed, then Donna died at the age of forty four. Sam, during the Dancing Queen number, can be seen calling Sophie "our girl" to Bill and Harry.
The question of who is Sophie's dad in Mamma Mia has never officially been answered. Even after the events of the sequel movie provided flashbacks to before Sophie was born, the question lingers, prompting a lot of fan speculation about Sophie's father's identity.
Regarding the decision to kill off Donna in the first place, Craymer said it was born from necessity. She explained that Streep "was hesitant about doing another film because she doesn't typically do sequels," so turning the follow-up into a combined prequel and sequel was a natural next step.
Mamma Mia star Meryl Streep has confirmed that the threequel is in the works. She told Deadline in May 2024 she was due to have a meeting "pretty soon" about returning to the franchise, saying: "Of course I want to do it. I think folks love it."
The short answer is that Meryl wasn't available for a full-fledged second round of singing and dancing (the celebrated actress isn't known for doing sequels at all, anyway).
Streep wrote to the producers to praise them for bringing a little happiness and fun to the lives of New York City's people following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The cast members performed their own singing.
