This Actor ‘Hated’ Dancing In ‘Mamma Mia,’ And Their Co-Star Is Telling All

Christine Baranski revealed there was one less “Dancing Queen” on the set of the 2008 film “Mamma Mia!”

The actor exposed the co-star in question during a Wednesday appearance on “The Stephen Colbert Show.”

“I don’t think he’ll mind my saying this, but all three actors ― Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan [Skarsgård] ― they just hated having to do the dance stuff,” she said, as the audience laughed.

“Pierce was game,” Baranski said. “You know, he would skip down the hill multiple times doing ‘Dancing Queen.’ This was James Bond, and he’s [singing] ‘You can dance…’”

“I think Colin Firth meant all of his moves ironically … but Stellan hated it,” the Emmy winner emphasized, before talking about one particular musical number from the hit movie.

“We finally went down the hill in ‘Dancing Queen’ and landed on the dock. And then it was the end of the number. And, you know, the camera would move around, and it usually would avoid Stellan,” Baranski said.

“Then, finally, Ol Parker, this wonderful, dear director, said, ‘Stellan, OK, it’s time for your close-up. You have got to do the moves now. You have simply got to do the moves,’” the “Big Bang Theory” actor said.

“And [Stellan] let out with a string of expletives. It’s as though Ol had asked him to do Arabic poetry while jumping rope. It’s like, ‘I can’t do that,’” she shared.

Skarsgård in fact did do the moves, as any “Mamma Mia!” viewer would know.

“I love Stellan. He’s just the greatest,” Baranski said.

Skarsgård has previously spoken about the experience of filming “Mamma Mia!”

“It was absurd to ask me to be in a musical,” the Swedish actor told Vanity Fair last year. “I can’t sing, I can’t dance. And then I saw it was also Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth, and they can’t sing and dance either, so I felt a little safer there.”

Skarsgård said he also figured out early on that the three main men “were the bimbos in this female production,” which he came to embrace.

“We didn’t have to be anything, but look cute and be silly,” the Golden Globe winner added. “There’s only one thing that was asked of us and that was, ‘Have fun because if we don’t have fun, it won’t be a film.’”