Pierce Brosnan was not confident while singing in Mamma Mia.
In a talk with Vanity Fair to promote his new show, Mobland, the 72-year-old Irish actor, singer, and film producer reminisced about recording SOS in the 2008 musical comedy Mamma Mia!, which he named “a warhorse of a song”.
Calling to mind his recording days, Brosnan, who played Sam Carmichael in the movie, said, “It’s not an easy song to sing, and I was mildly terrified. I remember going out to Air Studios to record the songs.”
He added, “The only thing that kind of gave me some solace and some peace was to see Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård look as equally freaked out as I was as we sat down with Benny [Andersson] and Bjorn [Ulvaeus] and went straight into recording the songs.”
The Tomorrow Never Dies star went on to note that singing the song out loud during the filming of scenes was more challenging than recording the song.
He explained, “So you record the songs, and then you sing back to the track, but you have to sing because you have to see the effort in the vocal cords, and you have to act the song out.”
It is pertinent to mention that Pierce Brosnan also sang in the 2018 sequel of the original film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
