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" He first stole our hearts as the dashing Remington Steele, then became everyone&amp;#039;s favorite secret agent, James Bond. Along the way, he&amp;#039;s been an art thief (The Thomas Crown Affair) and an assassin (The Matador). But he&amp;#039;s never been a singer or a hoofer. That all changes in the upcoming film Mamma Mia!, in which Brosnan, 55, stars alongside Meryl Streep in a musical set to the songs of seventies supergroup Abba. &amp;quot;This movie was a family affair,&amp;quot; says Brosnan, who has three grown children from his first marriage (to the late actress Cassandra Harris) and two sons, Dylan, 11, and Paris, 7, with his wife, environmentalist Keely Shaye Smith. &amp;quot;My boys came with us to Greece, where we filmed, and they got to see Dad singing and dancing his heart out.&amp;quot; While the star isn&amp;#039;t sure if his future films will have him belting out tunes, he&amp;#039;s up for the challenge. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m pretty tried-and-tested in the world of &amp;#039;suit acting,&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; he says of his past ultra-suave roles. &amp;quot;So I&amp;#039;m thrilled to be able to tackle something like this. I&amp;#039;m excited to see what will happen next. Really, at this stage in my career, I&amp;#039;m happy to still be at the table.&amp;quot; Q: What&amp;#039;s a typical day like for you?  I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate \u2014 soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal. I&amp;#039;ve also mastered banana-and-honey sandwiches with the crusts cut off, because my boys don&amp;#039;t like crusts. I&amp;#039;ll watch the Today show, then I&amp;#039;ll go for a jog or a swim, and have some coffee with my wife.  Q: What attracted you most to your wife?  She&amp;#039;s beautiful, of course \u2014 but she&amp;#039;s also intelligent and funny, and she has such a good heart. She handles herself with grace and dignity and allows me to be myself, always. Our relationship just gets better and sweeter, and it&amp;#039;s been wonderful plotting out our lives together.  Q: Were you nervous tackling a musical?  You know, I actually think I should have done it sooner \u2014 maybe I could go back and redo some of my movies and put music in them. Imagine: a singing Bond! That would have been something. But with Mamma Mia! I&amp;#039;ve gotten lucky, because I&amp;#039;m not just singing \u2014 I&amp;#039;m singing Abba, and people can&amp;#039;t help but get up and boogie when they hear these songs. Even so, the night before we started filming, there I was sitting in my hotel room in the dark, listening to the music on my iPod and thinking, Good lord, what have I done? Luckily, in the end, the exhilaration and the sheer terror were completely worth it.  Q: What did your kids think when they first heard your singing voice?   Well, when I first tested out my voice on them \u2014 I remember it was a Saturday morning \u2014 they all just cringed. Even the housekeeper cringed. They kept their opinions to themselves for a while, though. They didn&amp;#039;t want me to be discouraged. And I sang to them whether they liked it or not, in the car, in the house. And then when they weren&amp;#039;t around, I sang to the ocean. Now my family seems to think I&amp;#039;m doing all right. But it&amp;#039;s possible they&amp;#039;re just being nice. They&amp;#039;re probably still cringing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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