Sam Mendes’ bold The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event is near filling out its solid roster, with an Emmy Award-winning star being eyed to play Yoko Ono. That includes Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, and Joseph Quinn because the 4 Beatles, the undertaking will see 4 interconnecting films instructed from the angle of every band member.
Whereas the Beatles movies’ four main cast members had been first introduced in April at this 12 months’s CinemaCon, latest days have seen the announcement of a handful of latest supporting solid additions, together with Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney and Mia McKenna-Bruce as Ringo Starr’s first spouse, Maureen Starkey.
Per Selection, Mendes is presently circling Shogun star Anna Sawai to deal with the function of Ono reverse Dickinson’s John Lennon. Moreover, Intercourse Training and The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wooden can also be reported to be in rivalry to play British mannequin and George Harrison’s first spouse, Pattie Boyd.
Regardless of the offers not being formally closed, the real-life Boyd lately took to X to have fun the information of Wooden’s potential casting, and means that she is wanting ahead to assembly the actor “in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.”
In the meantime, Sawai has lengthy been rumored as a possible favourite to deal with the function of Lennon’s notorious widow, however had beforehand shot down solutions that she was concerned within the undertaking, suggesting again in March that “a rumor is only a rumor.”
Whereas this newest information probably appears to settle the query of who will likely be portraying every of the Beatles’ spouses, there are nonetheless a number of important figures in Beatles history yet to be announced, together with Lennon’s first spouse and the mom of his first-born son Julian, Cynthia Lennon.
Nonetheless, if Mendes is ready to formally conclude the offers with each Sawai and Wooden, he will likely be nicely on his technique to increasing his already spectacular solid roster with actors able to tackling one of the crucial bold musical biopic tasks ever undertaken.
Although it is usually attention-grabbing to notice that the casting course of has seemingly prioritized choosing the actors answerable for taking part in every of the band’s wives forward of different key roles, reminiscent of The Beatles’ supervisor Brian Epstein, and earlier band members Pete Greatest and Stuart Sutcliffe.
As such, this newest spate of casting information would appear to point that Mendes’ films can even look to delve into every of the Beatles’ private lives, and the way their relationships intersected with their time as a number of the world’s most well-known and sought-after musicians in The Beatles — A 4-Movie Cinematic Occasion.
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