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John Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird commented on the Beatles singer in the upcoming Biopic-and emphasizes that she would have liked a real scowerer in the role. Scousers are residents of Liverpool who speak in the scene dialect. Director and Oscar winner Sam Mendes plans a four -part film series about the Beatles, which is to be released from April 2028.
Baird: “Nobody else can get this Liverpool language melody.”
Mendes film filming in the four parts each devotes itself to one of the band members. The new cast is now officially known: Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) plays Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”) takes on the role of Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”).
When asked by the “Sunday Telegraph”, whether a scouser – that is, someone who comes from Liverpool – was supposed to play her brother, her answer was promptly that only a real scouser would have been suitable to authentically embody her brother: “Yes, of course. Nobody else can get this language melody.” Nobody. “
The 55-year-old hardly surprises that she was not integrated as a family member in the process of creation of the films: “He (the director) will never ask me! I am the last one he wants to speak to, because then he can no longer come up with” (via “nme”).
Criticism of the casting decision on Instagram
The announcement of the line -up has ensured many negative reactions on social media. Users and fans expressed their disappointment and amazement at the choice of actors. Comments like “Has anyone else mentioned?” Or “It has to be an April joke?!” And “We need a new casting immediately!” Silve under the Instagram post of the Rolling Stone, which shows the cast.
Past representations by John Lennon
John Lennon has been embodied by various actors several times in film and television. “Doctor Who” star Christopher Eccleston played him in the TV film “Lennon Naked” (2010), while Aaron Taylor-Johnson was a younger version of the musician in the film “Nowhere Boy” (2009). In 2019, Robert Carlyle embodied an alternative version of Lennon in “Yesterday”, in a world in which the Beatles never existed.
According to “The Mirror”, the director of the new film Sam Mendes recently described the Beatles as possibly “the most important band of all time” that “redefined culture and accompanied people for a lifetime”. For Lennon’s half -sister, this meaning is not only proud, but also associated with pain.
Memories of her brother
Julia Blaird describes the “imagine” singer as a “brilliant big brother, very bossy-a family property” (via “nme”) and remembers regular phone calls in his last years in New York. The last joint conversation took place on November 17, 1980 – just a few weeks before his death – when the two planned a family reunion.
Despite all the admiration for her brother, Baird sometimes wishes that his life would have taken a different course. “Being John’s sister is a privilege that I can hardly describe. But if I had the choice, I wish he never had seen a guitar,” she reveals “The Telegraph”. When asked why, she replies: “Well, then he might have become an art teacher – and he would still be here.” Lennon’s worldwide celebrity finally prompted Mark David Chapman to murder him in 1980.