More Beatle-wife casting!
Via Variety:
Fast-rising British star Mia McKenna-Bruce has landed herself a role in one of the buzziest and most talked-about upcoming film series.
The 28-year-old, who broke out as the lead in 2023 Cannes hit “How to Have Sex” and won the BAFTA Rising Star award last year, is joining Sony Pictures’ Sam Mendes-directed all-star quartet of biopics about The Beatles, now in prep with shooting set to begin soon.
As had been rumoured but now confirmed by Variety, McKenna-Bruce is set play Maureen Starkey, the first wife of Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr. Barry Keoghan is playing Starr, while his mop-topped bandmates include Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Harris Dickinson (John Lennon) and Joseph Quinn (George Harrison). News broke earlier this week that Saoirse Ronan was to play Linda McCartney. Sony declined to comment on the McKenna-Bruce casting.
Starkey was a hairdresser from Liverpool who first met Starr at the famed Cavern Club. The two married in 1965 but divorced a decade later. She passed away in 1994.
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