Sydney Sweeney couldn’t resist expressing her love for costar Amanda Seyfried whereas filming their new film, The Housemaid.
The Euphoria star, 28, revealed on the Monday, December 1, episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon that she is a large fan of Seyfried’s function as Sophie in Mamma Mia!, which relies on the hit ABBA-themed musical of the identical identify.
“Did I do know Amanda earlier than this? I’m obsessed along with her,” Sweeny responded when host Jimmy Fallon requested if she knew Seyfried, 39, earlier than working collectively. “She is aware of how a lot I’m along with her. I’m like the most important Mamma Mia! fan.”
In truth, once they bought collectively on the set of The Housemaid, Sweeney mentioned she even coaxed her Oscar-nominated costar to movie a “enjoyable little TikTok video collectively,” prompting Fallon to play a clip of the duo singing alongside to ABBA’s “Angeleyes.”
“All my goals got here true!” Sweeney mentioned of her collaboration with Seyfried. “It was wonderful.”
“I’ll play Mamma Mia! … My girlfriends and I have been on a visit, and we have been in Africa, and I used to be taking part in the music, we have been dancing on the seaside, and I despatched a video to Amanda, and I used to be like, ‘You might be endlessly my icon.’ Like, I like her,” Sweeney continued.
In The Housemaid, based mostly on Freida McFadden’s 2022 novel of the identical identify and directed by A Easy Favor filmmaker Paul Feig, Sweeney stars as Millie, a troubled live-in housemaid for rich couple Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Brandon Sklenar). Millie shortly discovers that every one isn’t what it appears within the couple’s apparently excellent family.
Seyfried additionally not too long ago sang Sweeney’s praises, placing her identify ahead for a function in a possible Mamma Mia! 3.
“Sydney Sweeney may present up. There’s a bunch of ladies that basically need to be part of it, and I’m all for it,” Seyfried informed Leisure Tonight in November a few potential sequel.
Whereas Mamma Mia! 3 has not formally been confirmed, Seyfried mentioned, “Perhaps I’m simply naive, however I’m fairly certain Mamma Mia! 3 is a finished deal.”
As for the place her character, Sophie, may find yourself within the movie, “I like portraying a mother, so I’d like to see Sophie along with her children,” the actress mentioned. “Perhaps she has a cousin she hasn’t seen shortly, and that may very well be Sabrina Carpenter.”
Seyfried performed Sophie in 2008’s Mamma Mia! and 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more, starring reverse Meryl Streep as Sophie’s mother, Donna. Within the authentic movie, Sophie tried to find the identification of her father from amongst three of Donna’s previous love pursuits, Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Harry (Colin Firth) and Invoice (Stellan Skarsgård). Within the sequel, Donna was revealed to have died earlier than the film flashed again to the previous, with Lily James taking part in a youthful Donna.
“I simply know the three dads are going to return again, and we nonetheless received’t know who the dad is as a result of it doesn’t matter,” Seyfried informed ET. “Meryl is a ghost, clearly, so she’ll be round. And Julie [Walters] and Christine [Baranski] can be again singing and searching sizzling, and we’re all going to be someplace tropical. And ABBA can be taking part in.”



