Director Sam Mendes reveals actresses set to play Fab Four’s wives in new Beatles films
They say behind every great man there is a great woman; and now the four great women behind the Beatles will be played by four major Hollywood actors.
Skyfall director Sam Mendes, who has produced four tie-in films, each focusing on a different member of The Beatles, has now cast the Fab Four’s wives for this ambitious project.
White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood (31) played George Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd, while Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (31) took on the role of Linda McCartney, the muse of many of Paul McCartney’s songs.
33-year-old Anna Sawai, who made a name for herself in the US drama series Shogun, will portray John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, and 28-year-old British actress Mia McKenna-Bruce will portray Ringo Starr’s wife Maureen Cox.
In Mendes’ four films, Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, 33, plays Starr; Fantastic Four actor Joseph Quinn, 31, plays Harrison; Triangle Of Sadness’ leading actor, Harris Dickinson (29), takes on the role of Lennon, and Gladiator II’s handsome Paul Mescal (29) takes on the role of McCartney.
Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, 31, has been cast as Linda McCartney, the inspiration for many of Paul McCartney’s songs.
Paul McCartney and his wife Linda McCartney of British rock band Wings at Abbey Road Studios to record the album ‘Venus And Mars’ in 1974
White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood (31) will portray George Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd.
Guitarist George Harrison poses for a portrait with his Pattie Boyd in 1966
33-year-old Anna Sawai, who made a name for herself in the US drama series Shogun, will portray John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their home in Tittenhurst Park in 1970
28-year-old British actress Mia McKenna-Bruce will portray Ringo Starr’s wife Maureen Cox.
Drummer Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Cox on their honeymoon in Hove, East Sussex, in 1965
The project, titled The Beatles: A Four-Movie Cinema Event, was announced last year.
Each of the films will take the perspective of a member of the Beatles, who rose from an unknown band in Liverpool in the early 1960s to become the biggest band in the world and then disbanded in 1970.
The families of surviving Beatles McCartney and Starr and the late Lennon and Harrison have granted the rights to feature films about them for the first time.
Announcing the female quartet on Saturday, Mendes said: ‘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 cinema today to join us in this amazing adventure.’
