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Does ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Have a Post-Credits Scene?

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When all is said and done, you might want to stay until the last credit rolls
Like many a big-screen sequel, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” rewards fans willing to stick through the bitter, bitter end of the credits after the movie ends.
Yes, writer-director Ol Parker’s new movie musical — a sequel to 2008’s hit “Mamma Mia!” — has a post-credits scene.
And while the brief vignette doesn’t tease a third installment in the franchise, a mash-up of classic ABBA songs with a convoluted soap operatic plot, it does provide a fun bonus scene that calls back to one of the new film’s biggest scene-stealers. ( Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you don’t want to know the contents of the bonus scene.)
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At several points in the film, both in flashbacks to 1979 and the present day, we meet a quick-witted customs officer (played by Iranian-British standup comic Omid Djalili) who stamps passports on a pier before characters board a ferry to the Greek island where Meryl Streep’s Donna — and later her daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) — make a home in an old farmhouse.
In the bonus scene, we first see Hugh Skinner’s Harry, an aspiring banker-businessman (later played by Colin Firth) who met new college graduate Donna (Lily James) in Paris and chased after her following a one-night romance.
“If she objects, have her give me a call,” Djalili’s unnamed customs agent tells young Harry before breaking into a few lines of the chorus to ABBA’s “Take a Chance in Me.”
He then quickly breaks character and convulses into laughter, joined by some unseen crew members.
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Harry is of course one of three men Donna (played by Meryl Streep in the original film) encountered that fateful summer in 1979 who could have been Sophie’s father — the others being Pierce Brosnan’s Sam and Stellan Skarsgard’s sailor Bill.
Christine Baranski, Jessica Walters and Dominic Cooper also return for the new film, whose predecessor was based on a stage musical that premiered in London’s West End in 1999 and played on Broadway for more than a decade.
Jeremy Irvine plays the younger Sam and Josh Dylan plays the young Bill, joined by fellow newcomers like Andy Garcia and Cher (as Donna’s long-estranged mother).
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” opens on Friday.

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