It turns out Meryl Streep just can’t resist a little bit of “Mamma Mia.”
During an appearance on the Tuesday, May 26, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Emily Blunt recalled her Devil Wears Prada costar dancing to the hit ABBA song at her wedding to John Krasinski.
Streep, 76, of course, starred in the hit 2008 musical movie Mamma Mia!, inspired by ABBA’s discography.
Blunt shared that Streep was coaxed into dancing to the song by both her mom, Joanna, and Krasinski’s mom, Mary Clare, during a boat party on Lake Como in Italy, where Blunt, 43, and Krasinski, 46, tied the knot in 2010.
“[The DJ] would sing the songs in half-Italian, half-English … he started playing ‘Mamma Mia,’ and my mom and John’s mom started dancing ominously towards Meryl,” the Oscar nominee revealed.
Blunt continued, “She indulged them. I asked her afterwards, ‘What did you feel when they came for you?’ and she said, ‘I wanted to hurl myself into the lake.’”
“[But] she did it! We have pictures of them all dancing together. It was amazing,” the actress added.
Blunt and Streep first worked together on The Devil Wears Prada, which was released in 2006, and recently reprised their roles in The Devil Wears Prada 2, reuniting with costars Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci.
In April, Blunt admitted to being “scared” of Streep on the set of the original film because Streep stayed in character as acerbic fashion editor Miranda Priestly.
“I mean, on the first one, I was quite scared because I feel like you were in a zone,” she told her costar in a SiriusXM interview moderated by Andy Cohen.
“Oh, yeah. I was in that zone,” Streep admitted.
“Not impenetrable, but we could come up and tell you a funny story, but you wouldn’t do your extraordinary laugh that I normally heard,” Blunt said.
As well as The Devil Wears Prada franchise, Streep starred in Mamma Mia! and 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan opposite Amanda Seyfried, though her character died in the latter movie.
Over the years, the three-time Oscar winner has weighed in on a potential third film.
“If there’s an idea that excites me, I’m totally there,” Streep told Vogue in 2023. “I’m up for anything … I told [producer] Judy [Craymer] 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.”
Streep quipped, “We may have to call it Grand-Mamma Mia! by the time we make it!”
In 2024, Streep told Deadline that she wasn’t sure how the franchise’s producers would address her character’s death but noted, “They have an idea. I haven’t heard it yet but … I’m going to hear about it pretty soon. Of course I want to do it. I think folks love it.”
