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The Mamma Mia: Here We Get Over again Theory That Changes Everything
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Mamma Mia: Here We Get Again is a moving picture musical that doesn't mind breaking your eye correct from the outset. It's clear every bit the 2018 flick begins (or if you watched any of the trailers, or heard anything well-nigh it prior to buying a ticket), that Donna — the main character from 2008'south original Mamma Mia! flick — is dead. While it may help to echo to yourself, "Meryl Streep is alive and well and doesn't do sequels," yous're still going to be babble at the terminate when she returns as a ghost (or a retentiveness) to sing a duet of "My Honey, My Life" with her onscreen daughter, Sophie (Mean Girls alum Amanda Seyfried), at her grandson'southward christening.
Luckily, we take some comic relief prior to this in the grade of Cher showing up as Sophie'south grandmother, Ruby, despite the fact that she by no stretch of the imagination looks like anyone who could perhaps be Meryl Streep's mother (not to mention, every bit The Guardian points out, Cher is but three years older than Streep in real life). We also take island resident Don Raphael Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia), who coincidentally turns out to be Ruby's old lover, Fernando. (Cue notwithstanding another ABBA duet.)
While the Fernando/Cherry backstory is left a little sketchy in the pic — simply being introduced every bit the setup for a song — one fan theory assigns Fernando a much larger role in the general scheme of things inside the realm ofMamma Mia! lore.
Could Mamma Mia's Sophie have been reunited with another long-lost relative?
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After Mamma Mia: Here We Go Once again hit theatres, ane Redditor took Sophie'south line about her grandma, Blood-red, being "25 years besides tardily" to kick off an entire chain of date-related calculations. They began with the assumption that Sophie herself is 25 years old, and the movie sequel is ready in 2005 (not an unreasonable supposition, considering that the kickoff one came out in 2008). That would hateful that Donna gave birth to Sophie in 1980, and that she did so inside a twelvemonth of graduating from academy at around 20 or 21 years of age. If Donna had been in the graduating grade of 1979, anile about xx, she could accept been born in 1959.
Well, what else happened in 1959? Co-ordinate to the movie itself, this is the year that Fernando and Cerise claimed they hooked up in United mexican states, per Vanity Fair. So... assuming the hookup took identify sufficiently early in the year to allow for a full-term pregnancy, the Redditor argued that Fernando might exist Donna'southward dad. Meaning that Donna, like her daughter, perchance grew up without ever knowing who her father was.
Hmm, interesting, having a family history of misplaced paternal figures. We suppose this doesn't bode well for Heaven's (Dominic Cooper) sticking around to raise his baby with Sophie — but then once more, they probably needed some premise for a potential second sequel.
Objections to the Cienfuegos paternity theory in Mamma Mia: Hither We Become Again
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Another Redditor seemed doubtful that Fernando was Donna's papi, since Señor Cienfuegos was living in Greece, and Donna did not grow up there. However, that merely leaves things in the realm of coincidence: Donna was conceived, her parents parted ways, and years afterwards she moved to the same island where her unknown father had earlier relocated. The 2 become acquainted, notwithstanding they somehow never compared notes, and were therefore unable to discover their supposed human relationship. (Maury Povich, where were y'all?)
Maybe more dubious is the fact that Cuban-born Andy Garcia is hardly the Nordic blond that would have been required to sire a Meryl Streep with Cher. In response to the naysayer, the original Redditor commented, "I just thought the mention of Cerise and Fernando meeting in 1959 was very deliberate." Hmm.
As to skeptics' claims, though, that if Fernando were meant to be Donna'southward dad, the moving picture would take dropped more clues, well, we can't exist so quick to dismiss information technology out of hand. Even Garcia himself told Vulture of this potential familial connection, "There's likewise the interesting anecdote that information technology's possible that I may have been the begetter to Meryl and Lily [James]." To get a clearer respond, we may but need to look another 10 years to run across what surprises Mamma Mia Threemay accept in store.
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Source: https://www.thelist.com/256704/the-mamma-mia-here-we-go-again-theory-that-changes-everything/