Pierce Brosnan had one great fear while making Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep has revealed Pierce Brosnan was terrified about running into Daniel Craig - the actor who replaced him as James Bond - while he was wearing an outlandish Spandex during the making of Mamma Mia!
Pierce Brosnan was terrified about running into Daniel Craig while he was making Mamma Mia!
The Devil Wears Prada 2 actress Meryl Streep has opened up about filming the 2008 ABBA movie-musical at Pinewood Studios in the UK explaining her co-star - who played James Bond in four films between 1995 and 2002 - dreaded being "humiliated" if he met his replacement while he was wearing an outlandish Spandex costume.
Speaking about filming in the UK during a particularly raining summer, Meryl explained the whole cast had a great time apart from Pierce. In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine shared on YouTube, she said: "[ Mamma Mia!] was shot in the historically rainiest summer London had ever experienced.
"We were shooting in Pinewood Studios. All the towns around us, including Oxford, were underwater, were flooded. It was the worst weather.
"And we would go to work, open the door to the great big Pinewood Studios and it would be Greece and sunshine and girls in bathing suits. And you know, it was ridiculous. It was complete fantasy and so, so, so much fun."
She added: "Except for Pierce. We were shooting in the James Bond studio and he was so afraid when he was walking to set in his Spandex ... that he would run into Daniel Craig, who was playing Bond at the time, and he would be humiliated. "
Meryl concluded of her experience: "It was so much fun. Made some great friends, lifelong friends, on that movie. I loved it."
Meryl has been busy promoting her new movie The Devil Wears Prada 2 and has been happy to share anecdotes from her lengthy career, but she recently insisted will never lift the lid on her life in a memoir because it would wouldn't be interesting enough.
During an appearance on SiriusXM's Andy Cohen Live, she said: "Nope. Too boring," before adding: "Well seriously, kind of, yeah."
However, Meryl did admit she does like the idea of returning to the stage after 20 years and she's been talking about a potential Broadway comeback with her longtime friend Martin Short.
Meryl - who last appeared onstage in New York in 2006 - said: "Oh, I would love to do so. I was talking with Marty Short about that and we were thinking that would be fun to do [something together] ... "
