{"id":67441,"date":"2025-10-11T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/67441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:50:08","slug":"anna-sawai-eyed-for-yoko-ono-in-upcoming-beatles-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/67441\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Sawai Eyed For Yoko Ono In Upcoming Beatles Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Mendes\u2019 ambitious The Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event<\/a> is close to filling out its cast roster, with an Emmy Award-winning star being eyed to play Yoko Ono. Featuring Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, and Joseph Quinn as the four Beatles, the project will see four interconnecting movies told from the perspective of each band member.<\/p>\n

While the Beatles movies\u2019 four main cast members<\/a> were first announced in April at this year\u2019s CinemaCon, recent days have seen the announcement of a handful of new supporting cast additions, including Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney and Mia McKenna-Bruce as Ringo Starr\u2019s first wife, Maureen Starkey.<\/p>\n

Per Variety, Mendes is currently circling Shogun star Anna Sawai to tackle the role of Ono opposite Dickinson\u2019s John Lennon. Additionally, Sex Education and The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood is also reported to be in contention to play British model and George Harrison\u2019s first wife, Pattie Boyd.<\/p>\n

Despite the deals not being officially closed, the real-life Boyd <\/a>recently took to X to celebrate the news of Wood\u2019s potential casting, and suggests that she is looking forward to meeting the actor \u201cat some point in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sawai has long been rumored as a potential favorite to tackle the role of Lennon\u2019s infamous widow, but had previously shot down suggestions that she was involved in the project, suggesting back in March that \u201ca rumor is just a rumor.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this latest news potentially seems to settle the question of who will be portraying each of the Beatles\u2019 spouses, there are still several significant figures in Beatles history yet to be announced<\/a>, including Lennon\u2019s first wife and the mother of his first-born son Julian, Cynthia Lennon.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, if Mendes is able to officially conclude the deals with both Sawai and Wood, he will be well on his way to expanding his already impressive cast roster with actors capable of tackling one of the most ambitious musical biopic projects ever undertaken.<\/p>\n

Though it is also interesting to note that the casting process has seemingly prioritized selecting the actors responsible for playing each of the band\u2019s wives ahead of other key roles, such as The Beatles\u2019 manager Brian Epstein, and earlier band members Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe. <\/p>\n

As such, this latest spate of casting news would seem to indicate that Mendes\u2019 movies will also look to delve into each of the Beatles\u2019 personal lives, and how their relationships intersected with their time as some of the world\u2019s most famous and sought-after musicians in The Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event.<\/p>\n

Source: Variety<\/a> and Pattie Boyd\/X<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Mendes\u2019 ambitious The Beatles \u2014 A Four-Film Cinematic Event is close to filling out its cast roster,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-67441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}