Cher Needs to Return with Meryl Streep for ‘Mamma Mia 3’

Cher is down for extra Mamma Mia! — and desires Meryl Streep again too.

Regardless of Streep’s character Donna Sheridan-Carmichael being revealed to have died in Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more, Cher, who additionally starred within the 2018 sequel as Donna’s mom Ruby Sheridan, thinks there may be nonetheless room for Streep within the franchise.

“I hold saying, ‘Meryl, you have to come again,’ ” Cher, 78, instructed Leisure Weekly in an interview revealed Tuesday, Nov. 19, surrounding her newly launched e-book Cher: The Memoir, Half 1.

” ‘It’s going to be enjoyable. You may have a superb time. You’ll sing,’ ” she recalled telling Streep, 75.

The Oscar winner instructed EW that making the second movie “was an incredible expertise and actually enjoyable,” including, “I took it on a lark as a result of [Meryl] was in there, and I really like her. The concept I used to be her mom was hysterical.”

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Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more served as each a prequel and a sequel to the primary musical film, which was launched in 2008.

Within the current day, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) prepares for the grand reopening of the Resort Bella Donna in honor of her late mom, Donna (Streep). All through the movie, we see flashbacks of a younger Donna (Lily James) as she journeys to Kalokairi and her romances with younger variations of Harry (Hugh Skinner), Invoice (Josh Dylan) and Sam (Jeremy Irvine).

In the meantime, Sophie grapples together with her estranged relationship with husband Sky (Dominic Cooper) and the absence of her fathers Harry (Colin Firth), Invoice (Stellan Skarsgård) and Sam (Pierce Brosnan), who’re all abroad.

The film concludes with a joyous celebration the place Sophie, now pregnant, reconnects with Sky and feels nearer to her mom than ever. The arrival of her grandmother Ruby (Cher) and a reunion together with her long-lost lover Fernando (Andy García) add to the festivities.

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Christine Baranski, recognized for her position as Tanya, revealed {that a} third Mamma Mia! installment is within the works throughout an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in August.

The keenness from Baranski, 72, got here three months after Streep instructed Deadline in Might {that a} assembly was “imminent” relating to proposals for her character’s return in a 3rd movie.

And in her new interview with EW, Cher mentioned she and the powers that be are “speaking about it” — and that she, too, is open to returning. “I do not know when they will do it, however I do know they’re speaking about it,” she added.