Paul McCartney isn’t happy with how his height is being depicted in Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-part Beatles biopic.
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“We were all the same height, and Ringo [Starr] was a bit smaller,” McCartney said on the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast Wednesday.
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“And if you look at photos, we’re all the same height.”
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The legendary musician explained that from the early glimpses of the films, Paul Mescal, who is playing him, appears “smaller” than Harris Dickinson, who is portraying the late John Lennon.
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“Sam Mendes is making the film.
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I said, ‘Sam, I’ve got just one thing that I need to say to you.
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You know, Paul’s a bit smaller,'” McCartney, 84, shared on the podcast.
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“I don’t know how Sam’s gonna deal with it,” he continued of the director.
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“He sent me a picture, a still from the filming they were doing, and they’re crossing the Abbey Road crossing, and the Paul character is markedly smaller.
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I texted him: ‘Sam!
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You said you wouldn’t do it.’”
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In his reply, Mendes, according to McCartney, insisted that the apparent height inaccuracy was merely from “the stride pattern.
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“And then he sent me another one where they’re equal,” McCartney said.
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McCartney recalled being similarly frustrated with Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 2009 film “Nowhere Boy,” where Thomas Brodie-Sangster played McCartney, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson played Lennon.
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“The John character, who she later married, Aaron — he’s bigger than me in the film,” McCartney explained to Poehler.
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John knocks me to the floor.
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And it’s like, ‘Sam, this is not true!’”
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McCartney said Sam’s “only explanation” for the size disparity at the time was that she was making a movie, and not a documentary.
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“And I thought, ‘Mm. Well, I don’t like that explanation,'” McCartney remembered, noting he “couldn’t do anything” about it because the film was already completed.
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John, the great big hero, and it’s like: ‘No! It’s not true,'” he added.
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Mendes’ “The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event” will feature four movies, each one centering on a different member of the beloved British rock band, all set to be released in April 2028.
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Mescal, 30, will play McCartney, Dickinson, 30, will play Lennon, Barry Keoghan will play Starr and Joseph Quinn will play George Harrison.
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Other confirmed cast members include Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, Harry Lloyd as George Martin and James Norton as Brian Epstein.
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In an IndieWire interview last year, Mescal confirmed he met McCartney to prepare for the biopic, and called the Grammy Award winner “an extraordinary man.”
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“It’s a crazy sentence to say that I’ve spent time with that man, let alone play him,” the “Hamnet” star said, before confirming he “absolutely” will be doing his own singing.
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In May, McCartney told the BBC that he taught Mescal how to play guitar.
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“He came into this office and I thought, ‘Well, I’ll show him how to do Blackbird,'” McCartney shared.
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“So I picked up the guitar and started playing… and he played along exactly!
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I think he knew it better than I did!”
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“It was amazing how studied and how well-educated he was about me.
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So, yeah, I thought, OK, I’ll leave you to it.”
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