Paul McCartney had a humorous conversation with Amy Poehler on her "Good Hang" podcast regarding the casting of the Beatles in various biopics, noting that the actor playing "Paul" always turns out to be shorter than the actor playing John Lennon.
Via Billboard:
“Who was the tallest?” Poehler wondered in a follow-up.
Oh boy.
“We were all the same height,” McCartney, 84, said a bit defensively, holding up a finger in emphasis. “You really were,” Poehler said with a sly smile as she willfully opened the Pandora’s box.
“You know I’ve got a thing about that, do you?” Macca shot back as Poehler feigned ignorance and let out a laugh.
“Oh my God. Well, we were all the same height (5'11") and Ringo was a bit smaller,” McCartney explained to Poehler’s delight. “And if you look at photos, we’re all the same height.” However, Sir Paul noted that director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 2009 Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy, featured her future husband and the film’s star, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, as a teenage John who, lamentably, is “bigger” than McCartney in the film.
“My character is kind of … wimpy … smaller than John … John knocks me to the floor,” McCartney explained, seemingly still a bit peeved. “And it’s like, ‘Sam, this is not true!’,” he said he told the director, a friend, to guffaws from the pod’s studio crew.
McCartney said the director’s explanation was, “‘this is a movie, it’s not a documentary,'” to which he said he replied, “‘well, I don’t like that explanation'” about the character he dubbed “little Paul” to Lennon’s “great big hero.”
It turns out that Paul Mescal, the actor playing Paul in the upcoming quartet of Beatles biopics from director Sam Mendes, is a tad shorter than Harris Dickinson, the actor playing John. Mescal is 5'11" and Dickinson is 6'2".
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