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Stellan Skarsgård discussed Meryl Streep's Mamma Mia! character, Donna, while backstage at the 2026 Golden Globes
The actor revealed that "a lot of people are working on" bringing Donna "back from the dead" for Mamma Mia 3
Skarsgård played Donna's former fling Bill in the 2008 musical romantic comedy as well as in the 2018 prequel-sequel
Here we go again! Chatter aboutMeryl Streep'sMamma Mia!character, Donna, returning for the potentialMamma Mia 3film is abuzz again.
Afterwinning Best Supporting Actorin a Motion Picture for his performance inSentimental Valueat the2026 Golden Globeson Jan. 11,Stellan Skarsgårdanswered a question about whether Donna can be resurrected.
"She can be brought back from the dead — everybody can be brought back from the dead in the movies — and in the movies, she's fantastic," Skarsgård, 74, told members of the media at the ceremony's press room.
In 2018's prequel-sequelMamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the follow-up to the 2008 original, Donna dies off-screen from an unspecified illness.
Skarsgård played one of Donna's former flings, Bill, in both films.
"A lot of people are working on it, to bring her back," Skarsgård revealed of Streep, 76, and her beloved character at the Golden Globes.
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A script forMamma Mia 3has been completed and the film remains in development, according to producer Judy Craymer. "Well, we know what we want to do with the movie, and it will happen," Craymer toldDeadlinein May while discussingSabrina Carpenterpotentially joining the cast.
However, this potential third film in the franchise has not been publicly greenlit, with no cast announcements made yet either.
Streep, meanwhile, is eager to return somehow.
InVogue's "Oral History ofMamma Mia!" published in 2023, the actress said, "If there's an idea that excites me, I'm totally there."
"I'm up for anything," the three-time Oscar winner continued. "I told Judy if she could figure out a way to reincarnate Donna, I'm into that. Or it could be like in one of those soap operas where Donna comes back and reveals it was really her twin sister that died. We may have to call itGrand-Mamma Mia!by the time we make it!"
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Amanda Seyfried, who plays Donna's daughter, Sophie, in the first two musical romantic comedies, is more than ready to return to the franchise.
"I have no idea where the story is going to go, but I know there's going to be a lot of singing and dancing," Seyfried, 40, told PEOPLE in December. "I'm going to keep campaigning for that movie until I'm blue in the face."
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