John Lennon’s half-sister says he “ought to be performed by a Scouser” in Sam Mendes’ movies

John Lennon’s half-sister has mentioned that an actor from Liverpool ought to play him within the forthcoming Beatles biopics, directed by Sam Mendes.

The official casting was introduced final week for the quartet of movies, each based mostly on a distinct band member and helmed by former Bond filmmaker Mendes. London-born actor Harris Dickinson, star of Babygirl, will play Lennon. He joins Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Paul Mescal and Paul McCartney.

Talking to The Telegraph, Lennon’s sister Julia Baird weighed in on her late brother’s casting. “Sure, in fact” she replied when requested if it ought to be a scouser enjoying him. “Nobody else can get that Liverpool intonation. No person”.

John Lennon has been performed on movie and tv many instances by quite a lot of actors. Physician Who star Christopher Eccleston performed him within the 2010 TV movie Lennon Bare, whereas Aaron Taylor-Johnson performed a younger model of the musician in 2009’s Nowhere Boy. Robert Carlyle performed an alternate model of Lennon in 2019’s Yesterday, which portrayed a world the place the band by no means existed.

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Probably the most notable actor from Liverpool to play him was Ian Hart, who performed him twice within the ‘90s and as soon as for 2013 quick Snodgrass, which imagined him as an older man who had by no means joined The Beatles.

As regards to being consulted in regards to the film, Baird replied: “[Mendes is] by no means going to ask me! I’m the final individual he would wish to speak to as a result of then he can’t make it up”. Later within the interview, she described John Lennon as: “an excellent older brother, very bossy – a household trait”.

She does, nevertheless, remorse his fame, given it led to his homicide by the hands of fanatic Mark David Chapman in 1980. “To be John’s sister is a privilege that I couldn’t start to explain to you. However given the selection I want he’d by no means seen a guitar”. When requested why, she replied: “Properly, then he may need been an artwork trainer and he’d nonetheless be right here”.

All 4 of The Beatles movies will premiere in April 2028, in what Mendes describes as the primary “bingeable second in cinema”. Lately, followers on-line gave their verdict on the casting.