Does your mother know? 20 surprising facts about the beloved ‘Mamma Mia!’ movies
Mamma Mia! and its perfectly titled sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again became box-office and cultural phenomenons. Between the ABBA ear-worms, the A-list ensemble, and their effervescent rom-com plots, they’ve quickly become endlessly re-watchable classics, and have pretty much earned their place in the queer cinematic canon—even if they are largely about one woman’s relationship with three different male suitors!From the fabulous to the ABBA-licious, scroll down below for 20 facts you didn’t know about the Mamma Mia!
films:Director Phyllida Lloyd also directed the original show on Broadway, and Mamma Mia! became her feature film debut in 2008.
She later went on to direct The Iron Lady in 2011, which earned Meryl Streep her third Academy Award.“My first film was both one of the most hated and loved films of the last…I don’t even know how long.”As Rita Wilson revealed in an oral history of the movies by Vogue, the film rights were first attained by her and her husband Tom Hanks, which eventually led to its development: “Tom was filming in London and I remember reading about a musical that used ABBA’s music.
It had only been in performances for about three weeks, so we gathered our family and went to see it in the West End. About 20 minutes in, I had an unmistakable gut feeling that this had to be a movie.
