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Charli XCX and Ariana Grande need to add a seat at the pop star turned movie muse table for Sabrina Carpenter. Currently in the midst of her Short n’ Sweet tour, the singer is inspiring Wicked producer Marc Platt in preparation for their upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. “We sat down and we talked about it and I thought, She’s such a talented young person,” Platt told Variety at the Wicked: For Good New York premiere. “And a voice! I love her music. She was smart and articulate and liked the journey that Alice goes on in the Lewis Carroll books, so I said, ‘Let’s take a shot at it.’” Carpenter helped come up with the new concept, and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers) is working on a script, but it’s “early days” in the movie’s development, Platt said.
But, if that doesn’t work out for her, don’t worry because Carpenter’s got another appearance in her back pocket: Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried is trying to get her cast in Mamma Mia 3!. Seyfried told Entertainment Tonight she wants to grow the Mamma Mia! family onscreen. “I love portraying a mom, so I would love to see Sophie with her kids,” she said. “Maybe she has a cousin she hasn’t seen in a while, and that could be Sabrina Carpenter.” Carpenter is a known ABBA fan — she went as the female members of the band for Halloween this year with Saturday Night Live’s Veronika Slowikowska — so the pairing is a match made in blonde heaven. “There’s a bunch of girls that really want to be a part of it, and I’m all for it,” Seyfried added, also mentioning Sydney Sweeney.
And if that doesn’t work out, then there’s always the ever-persistent rumor that she’ll return to Disney to play Rapunzel in the live-action version of Tangled. Celebrity gossip monger Deuxmoi has peddled those theories, and Carpenter herself fueled them by dressing as Rapunzel for Halloween in 2023. Maybe she will be Disney’s next prodigal daughter and return to her Girl Meets World roots.
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