6/2/2023 0 Comments The dreaming void trilogy“If you had a woman director and a woman writer and a woman producer now it’s seen as, ‘Wow, you ticked the diversity box,’ and yet it just seemed completely natural at the time back in 1997 when we were first working together. The story of Mamma Mia! is as much about the three women behind it as it is about the three women who perform it on stage: Craymer chose Catherine Johnson to write the book and Phyllida Lloyd to direct. She remembers using her first royalty fee to get the car mended. Funds were low - she couldn’t even afford to fix her car - so we scratched that lunch and went for tea and coffee instead. But all of her money, including an apartment in London’s posh Holland Park area, was tied up in trying to put Mamma Mia! together. Later, as I walk along Piccadilly, I find myself smiling at a memory from possibly 28 years ago, when I was due to lunch with Craymer, at her invitation. “There is a story there, and I do think Meryl should come back - and if the script is right, she would, I think, because she really loved playing Donna,” Craymer tells me as we settle into a comfy banquette at Charlie’s, a delightfully swanky restaurant located at Brown’s hotel in Mayfair. “I don’t want to over-egg it, but I know there’s a trilogy there,” she says brightly. So far, there’s nothing “official” about MM!3, cautions Craymer. Scoot McNairy To 'Speak No Evil' For Blumhouse & Universal
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