It's now officially official, the following actresses will be playing important women in the Beatles' lives in the upcoming series of biodocs about the band:
Via Variety:
“Maureen, Linda, Yoko and Pattie are four fascinating and unique figures in their own right — and I’m thrilled that we’ve managed to persuade four of the most talented women working in film today to join this amazing adventure,” [director Sam] Mendes said in a statement.
The four movies will each take the perspective of one member of the Beatles — John Lennon (Harris Dickenson), Paul McCartney (Paul Mescal), George Harrison (Joseph Quinn) and Ringo Starr (Barry Keoghan) — as they climb from unknowns from Liverpool in the early 1960s to the biggest band in the world before their breakup in 1970. Its the first time that the band and their descendants have given music and life rights to a theatrical feature film about them.
Linda (née Eastman) met McCartney in 1967 while working as a photographer. They married in 1969; after the Beatles broke up, she was a member of McCartney’s band, Wings. They remained together until her death from breast cancer in 1998.
Ono and Lennon first met in 1966 when the latter took in the former’s conceptual art at a London gallery. Lennon was still married to Cynthia Powell at the time (a role that has not yet been cast), but they divorced in 1968, and Lennon and Ono married the next year.
Boyd was working as a model when she met Harrison on the set of the Beatles’ 1964 film “A Hard Day’s Night.” They married in 1966, then divorced in 1977. (She later was married to Eric Clapton from 1979 to 1989.) In an Oct. 10 post on X (since deleted), Boyd said she was “looking forward (hoping) to meet” Wood “at some point in the future.”
Starkey (née Cox) began dating Starr (whose real name is Richard Starkey) in 1962, when she was 16 and working as a hairdresser. They married in 1965, and they had three children together; they divorced in 1975. She died from leukemia in 1994.
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| Harris Dickinson as John Lennon Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr Joseph Quinn as George Harrison |
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