Christine Baranski about Stellan Skarsgård in ‘Mamma Mia!’
Seems, not everybody was saying sure to the dance routines on the set of Mamma Mia!. Christine Baranski simply spilled some behind-the-scenes tea that proves even beloved Hollywood actors can really feel rhythmically challenged when ABBA is concerned — and Stellan Skarsgård would possibly high that listing.
Throughout her Might 7 look on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, Baranski, 73, took a nostalgic detour whereas selling the brand new season of 9 Good Strangers, reminiscing about her time filming the 2008 musical hit alongside Stellan Skarsgård, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth.
When Colbert reminded her of the Mamma Mia! days and even flashed a photograph of the solid, she didn’t maintain again from sharing the hilarious particulars of how every main man dealt with the movie’s high-energy musical numbers.
Apparently, Brosnan was totally on board with the upbeat vibe.
“Pierce was game,” Baranski mentioned, noting his enthusiasm. “He would skip down the hill multiple times” throughout the filming of Dancing Queen.
As for Firth, properly, he introduced a unique sort of vitality. “Colin meant all of his moves ironically,” she added with fun.
However when it got here to Skarsgård, the dancing enjoyable hit a little bit of a velocity bump.
“Stellan hated it,” Baranski revealed. She described how the solid needed to dance their method down a hill and land on a dock as the massive musical quantity wrapped up.
“Then it was the end of the number. The camera would move around, and it usually would avoid Stellan,” she mentioned, clearly nonetheless amused by the reminiscence. However then, the director had different plans.
“Finally, Ol Parker, the director, said, ‘Stellan, okay, it’s time for your close up. You have got to do the moves now. You have simply got to do the moves,’” Baranski recounted.
And that’s when issues actually bought theatrical — simply not in the best way you’d count on.
“He let out a string of expletives,” she laughed. “It’s as if Ol had asked him to do Arabic poetry while jumping rope. He was like, ‘I can’t do that.’”
However in true skilled vogue, Skarsgård rose to the event.
“He did it,” Baranski mentioned, smiling. “It was so funny. I love Stellan. He’s just the greatest. He’s a wonderful actor. He was a great colleague.”
Even when his dance strikes weren’t precisely worthy of a disco ball trophy, it’s protected to say Skarsgård gave followers a efficiency to recollect — expletives and all.
