{"id":863221,"date":"2026-09-28T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863221\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:06:18","slug":"paul-mccartneys-ex-wont-watch-new-beatles-biopics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863221\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney\u2019s ex won\u2019t watch new Beatles biopics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Asher has spent decades declining to revisit her relationship with Paul McCartney<\/a>, even though their time together helped inspire some of the Beatles\u2019 most enduring songs. Now, as that relationship is set to be dramatized on the big screen, she has no intention of watching.<\/p>\n

Asher, who dated the Beatle bass<\/a> guitarist for five years and became engaged to him in 1967, is being portrayed by Lucy Boynton in Sam Mendes\u2019 upcoming four-part Beatles film series<\/a>. The actor says the filmmakers did reach out to her, but she gave them the same response she has given to inquiries about her relationship with McCartney for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey approached me about it, of course, but I said my usual,\u201d Asher told The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The couple attend a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Wales in August 1967. (Image credit: Daily Mirror\/Mirrorpix\/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Asher and McCartney met in 1963, when she interviewed the Beatles at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall. Their relationship quickly became serious, with McCartney eventually moving into the Asher family home. The years they spent together coincided with one of the Beatles\u2019 most creatively fertile periods, and Asher has been connected to several McCartney compositions from the era.<\/p>\n

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People would offer me money to talk about it, all sorts of things. But I won\u2019t discuss it. It was so long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jane Asher<\/p>\n

The years they spent together coincided with one of the Beatles\u2019 most creatively fertile periods, and Asher was a direct influence on several of McCartney\u2019s songs. \u201cAnd I Love Her\u201d (from 1964\u2019s A Hard Day\u2019s Night<\/a>),\u201cI\u2019m Looking Through You\u201d (from 1965\u2019s Rubber Soul<\/a>) and \u201cFor No One\u201d (from 1966\u2019s Revolver<\/a>) have all been associated with their relationship.<\/p>\n

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Their engagement ended in 1968, with Asher making the announcement during a BBC television appearance. McCartney married Linda McCartney the following year.<\/p>\n

Asher, now 80, has made clear that she considers the relationship a closed chapter. She said she has turned down offers of money to talk about McCartney and has no interest in reopening the subject for the new films.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople would offer me money to talk about it, all sorts of things,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I won\u2019t discuss it. It was so long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

That extends to Boynton\u2019s portrayal of her. Asked about the casting, Asher acknowledged that her onscreen counterpart is \u201cbeautiful,\u201d but said she won\u2019t see the finished films.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, of course, Lucy is beautiful. But I won\u2019t watch the films, otherwise everyone will ask me what I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Together on January 19, 1968. (Image credit: Mark Hayward Archive\/Redferns)<\/p>\n

Mendes\u2019 The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event will tell the band\u2019s story four times, with each movie centered on a different Beatle. Paul Mescal plays McCartney, with Harris Dickinson as John Lennon<\/a>, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison<\/a> and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.<\/p>\n

The ensemble also includes Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd<\/a> and Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey.<\/p>\n

The project has the participation of Apple Corps and the surviving Beatles, giving Mendes access to the group\u2019s music rights as well as their approval for the films. The four movies are scheduled to open in theaters simultaneously in April 2028.<\/p>\n

Asher isn\u2019t the only Beatles partner whose connection to the project has attracted attention. Boyd said earlier this year that she had not been contacted by the production about her portrayal, adding, \u201cI could have really told them great stories.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Asher has spent decades declining to revisit her relationship with Paul McCartney, even though their time together…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-863221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}