The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr recollects sharing some notes with Sam Mendes for his biopic on the musician.
In keeping with a brand new interview with the New York Times, Starr and Mendes spent “two days” going over the script “line by line” and Starr “supplied in depth notes” to be able to make the movie extra correct to his private life and experiences.
“He had a author — superb author, nice repute, and he wrote it nice, but it surely had nothing to do with Maureen [his first wife] and I,” Starr instructed the publication. “That’s not how we have been. I’d say, ‘We might by no means try this.’”
Nonetheless, after they went over revisions, Starr felt content material with the script. “He’ll do what he’s doing,” he stated, earlier than including, “and I’ll ship him peace and love.”
There are 4 biopics on every Beatles member being made by Sony. Barry Keoghan is portraying Starr. Keoghan shared his expertise of being nervous whereas assembly the Beatles icon on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! “It was form of a kind of moments the place you’re in awe and also you’re simply frozen,” the Saltburn actor recalled.
“Once I was speaking to him, I couldn’t take a look at him. I used to be nervous, like proper now. He stated, ‘You may take a look at me,’ And once more — you’re taking part in Ringo Starr,” Keoghan stated. “My job is to look at and soak up type of mannerisms and research, however I wish to humanize him and produce emotions to him, not simply form of imitate him.”
He added that the 2 “simply sat within the backyard, chatting away” and that Starr was “completely pretty.”
Paul Mescal will star as Paul McCartney; Harris Dickinson as John Lennon; and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. All 4 of the biopics are set to open in theaters in April 2028.