“We were all the same height and Ringo was a bit smaller, but when Sam Taylor-Wood did Nowhere Boy, the John Lennon character was bigger than me in the film,” he said.<\/p>\n
“My character is wimpy and smaller than John, and is easily knocked to the floor.”<\/p>\n
He recalled getting in touch with Taylor-Wood to voice his thoughts.<\/p>\n
“Her only explanation was that it was a movie, not a documentary, and I did not like that.<\/p>\n
“There was me as little Paul, and John was a great big hero.”<\/p>\n
Fast forward to the production stages of the new films, and Mendes got in touch with McCartney to share some of the material.<\/p>\n
McCartney joked: “Guess what? Mescal is smaller than the guy who plays John.<\/p>\n
“[Sam] sent me a still of the filming they were doing of when they were crossing the Abbey Road crossing, and the Paul character is markedly smaller.<\/p>\n
“I texted him saying: Sam, he’s smaller. Don’t do this,” he laughed.<\/p>\n
“He said it’s okay, it’s just the stride pattern, they’re all equal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We were all the same height and Ringo was a bit smaller, but when Sam Taylor-Wood did Nowhere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}