Amanda Seyfried is open to Sabrina Carpenter playing her daughter in “Mamma Mia 3”: 'I'm a big fan'
Please, please, please somebody make this happen.
Amanda Seyfried is down to dance, jive, and have the time of her life with Sabrina Carpenter in a third Mamma Mia film.
The actress, who starred as Sophie in the 2008 movie musical and its 2018 sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, was asked during a recent ABC News interview if she’d be interested in having the “Espresso” singer potentially play her daughter in a future installment to the ABBA musical franchise.
“Because we know age is sort of a forgettable construct in the MMCU, the Mamma Mia Cinematic Universe,” journalist Will Gans explained as Seyfried began to laugh. “So people are saying could Sabrina play Sophie’s daughter?”
The question appeared to throw Seyfried for a loop. “It’s… Eh… It’s… Technically she could,” she hedged.
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Ganss then noted that Cher and Meryl Streep, who played mother Ruby and daughter Donna in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, are technically only three years apart in age in real life. “You’re right, actually, [it] doesn’t matter,” Seyfried replied. “You know what? Old age makeup for me. That’s what it will be.”
Especially if it means that Carpenter will join them on their next family adventure. “I don’t mind. I’m an actor. I’ll do it. If Sabrina Carpenter wants to play my daughter, I’ll make it happen,” Seyfried said. “It’s fine. She’s… I’m a big fan.”
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Carpenter’s fans have suggested that she play a role in a third Mamma Mia film after the singer recently performed the title track on the opening night of her Short N’ Sweet tour. While a third film hasn't been officially greenlit just yet, Seyfried explained that “everybody says [Mamma Mia 3] is gonna happen,” but that she's still a little skeptical.
She added, “I mean, I haven’t seen a script.”
Seyfried’s comments come after Christine Baranski, who played Donna’s pal Tanya in the films, told The Hollywood Reporter that franchise producer Judy Craymer shared "the narrative plotline” of the third film with her during a recent meeting.
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"That’s all I can say! But, it’s not like, 'Oh, I wish it could happen!' Judy Craymer makes things happen,” Baranski told the outlet. “She made number two happen, and it was a phenomenal hit. I wouldn’t put it past Judy Craymer to get everybody back together.”
Baranski is one of multiple members of the original cast who have expressed their interest in returning for another film, including Colin Firth, Dominic Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, and Stellan Skarsgaard. Even Streep, whose character notably died in the sequel, is ready to make her grand return to the series.
"I told [producer Judy Craymer] if she could figure out a way to reincarnate Donna, I'm into that," she told Vogue last year. "Or it could be like in one of those soap operas where Donna comes back and reveals it was really her twin sister that died."
For now, the question (for Carpenter, at least) is... voulez-vous? Watch Seyfried discuss the singer's potential casting in the clip above.
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