Stellan Skarsgard exposed that he was reluctant to celebrity in Mamma Mia!, once he understood he simply had to “look cute and be silly,” he was done in.
The expert star lately confessed to Vanity Fair that he was originally shocked when asked to remain in the 2008 film music with Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried because he can not sing or dance.
“It was absurd to ask me to be in a musical,” Skarsgard stated.“I can’t sing, I can’t dance. And then I saw it was also Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth, and they can’t sing and dance either, so I felt a little safer there.”
In Mamma Mia!, Sophie (Seyfried) lays out to locate her genuine papa prior to her wedding as her mommy Donna (Streep) had actually made love with 3 males (Skarsgard, Brosnan and Firth), right prior to she got expectant with Sophie. The film was an adjustment of the phase musical of the exact same name and included hit tunes from ABBA. Skarsgard likewise returned for the 2018 follow up Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once again.
The Dune: Sequel star stated when he discovered that he, Brosnan and Firth were simply intended to be these fine-looking “bimbos” in the film, he was totally offered on the task.
“I understood that we were just supposed to be — like in a film that is produced by men and directed by men and men in the leads, you have the bimbo — and we were the bimbos in this female production,” he described. “We didn’t have to be anything but look cute and be silly. There’s only one thing that was asked of us and that was, ‘Have fun because if we don’t have fun, it won’t be a film.’”
Skarsgard likewise remembered he and Firth a minimum of tried to deal with their vocal singing and dance abilities yet really did not have much good luck.
“Me and Colin coming to dance lessons, in our slacks and our little Paul Smith shirts and everything, and 60 dancers that are dressed up like dancers are,” the star stated.“We really tried for a month and a half, trying to dance to ‘Voulez-Vous’, and we failed.’”
In an additional meeting today with Organization Expert, Skarsgard likewise recalled at an additional among his huge tasks he starred in: the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise business.
With Dune: Sequel striking movie theaters on Friday, which sees the star change right into lawless Baron Vladimir many thanks to hours in a makeup chair, Skarsgard remembered likewise being in cosmetics for hours for his function as barnacle-covered Bootstrap Costs in the Johnny Depp-led flicks. However he confessed that he picked to wear prosthetics for that function as opposed to counting on CGI like various other stars did.
“I was the only one on set with real prosthetics on,” he informed the electrical outlet. “Everyone else on that ship showed up five minutes before we started shooting and had dots put on their face, and away they went. I had been there for six hours. But the thing is, I like it. I like to see the artists paint, if that makes sense.”
Skarsgard starred in 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Guy’s Upper body and 2007’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At Globe’s End.
