Cher Says She TookMamma Mia!Role 'on a Lark' and Wants to Return with Meryl Streep for Third Movie

Mar. 15, 2025

Cher and Meryl Streep at the U.K. premiere ofMamma Mia! Here We Go Againin London, 2018.Photo:Ian West/PA Images via Getty

Ian West/PA Images via Getty

Cheris down for moreMamma Mia!— and wantsMeryl Streepback too.

“I keep saying, ‘Meryl, you’ve got to come back,’ " Cher, 78, toldEntertainment Weeklyin an interview published Tuesday, Nov. 19, surrounding her newly released bookCher: The Memoir, Part 1.

" ‘It’ll be fun. You’ll have a good time. You’ll be able to sing,’ " she recalled telling Streep, 75.

The Oscar winner toldEWthat making the second film “was an amazing experience and really fun,” adding, “I took it on a lark because [Meryl] was in there, and I love her. The idea that I was her mother was hysterical.”

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Cher inMamma Mia! Here We Go Again(2018).Universal Pictures

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Againserved as both a prequel and a sequel to the first musical movie, which was released in 2008.

In the present day, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna in honor of her late mother, Donna (Streep). Throughout the film, we see flashbacks of a young Donna (Lily James) as she journeys to Kalokairi and her romances with young versions of Harry (Hugh Skinner), Bill (Josh Dylan) and Sam (Jeremy Irvine).

Meanwhile, Sophie grapples with her estranged relationship with husband Sky (Dominic Cooper) and the absence of her fathers Harry (Colin Firth), Bill (Stellan Skarsgård) and Sam (Pierce Brosnan), who are all overseas.

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Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried inMamma Mia!(2008).Universal Pictures/Relativity Media/Littlestar/Playtone/Kobal/Shutterstock

Universal Pictures/Relativity Media/Littlestar/Playtone/Kobal/Shutterstock

Christine Baranski, known for her role as Tanya, revealed that a thirdMamma Mia!installment is in the works during an interview withThe Hollywood Reporterin August.

The enthusiasm from Baranski, 72, came three months after Streep toldDeadlinein May that a meeting was “imminent” regarding proposals for her character’sreturn in a third film.

And in her new interview withEW, Cher said she and the powers that be are “talking about it” — and that she, too, is open to returning. “I don’t know when they’re going to do it, but I know they’re talking about it,” she added.

source: people.com