'We're not anywhere': Amanda Seyfried hints at lack of Mamma Mia! 3 progress
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has suggested that little progress has been made on a potential third film.
Amanda Seyfried has suggested that Mamma Mia! 3 is no further forward.
The 40-year-old actress has played Sophie Sheridan in the previous two movies – which feature the music of ABBA – and revealed she "would've made" the third flick "already" if she was in creative control.
In an interview alongside her The Housemaid co-star Sydney Sweeney and director Paul Feig, Amanda told ScreenRant: "We're not anywhere. I mean, there's so many of us in it, and if you don't have a story you can't cast in your head yet.
"I'm dying to find out if there's a role for (Sydney), but I don't know what the story is going to be, and I know that the music part... it's a big part of it, so we have to make sure that everybody is aligned. I don't know. I wish I was producing because I would've made it already."
Seyfried stressed that the third Mamma Mia! film could feature ABBA tracks that have been used in the previous movies.
The Dear John star said: "You don't need any new songs... They do have songs, but I don't want to hear the King Kong Song in Mamma Mia! 3. I want to go with our hits. I want to go with Super Trouper and Chiquitita."
Amanda suggested that Feig would be a great choice to direct a third Mamma Mia! movie if the project comes to fruition.
She said: "I mean, Mamma Mia! is iconic. Paul is his own... I don't know. It is amazing to watch him work. And then to see the end, the edit.
"I don't know how he does it, but he's one of a kind and I think he fits perfectly into that genre and the humour, the sense of humour that he finds, that he found in the house with my character especially. It's just like, what a wonder that guy is."
Seyfried had previously stated that she was "100 per cent optimistic" that a third film would be made.
She said: "I think the second one proves that there’s always a need or a desire.
"I’m holding out hope. I’m not holding my breath for it to happen at any specific point, but I do believe, in my heart of hearts, that we’re all going to band together to make it happen. I do.
"Because there’s just a desire from us, from the creators too, and when there’s enough of a desire, it usually takes place, especially if it’s so positive. I can’t wait."
Amanda's co-star Dominic Cooper – who played Sophie's husband Sky Rymand - also hopes to make a third Mamma Mia! film as he discussed the pride he takes in the popularity of the flicks.
He said: "I think about it, you don't realise when you're that young or at the time what that film ends up meaning to so many people.
"The amount of people that have said to me, 'I watched that with my mum, it was the thing that we watched before she passed away or before a tragedy happened, we watched it every day. We laughed so much.'
"So, it's become something that's meant much more than it kind of did at the time in reflection, a really magical time."
