Behind every great man there’s a great woman, the saying goes – and now the fabulous four women behind The Beatles are to be portrayed by four great Hollywood actresses.
Skyfall director Sam Mendes, who is producing four linked films, each focusing on a different member of The Beatles, has now cast the Fab Four’s wives for the ambitious project.
White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood, 31, will play George Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd, while Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, 31, has been cast as Linda McCartney, the muse to many of Paul McCartney’s songs.
Anna Sawai, 33, who has made a name for herself in the US drama series Shogun, will appear as John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, and British actress Mia McKenna-Bruce, 28, will play Maureen Cox, the wife of Ringo Starr.
In Mendes’s four films, Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, 33, plays Starr, Fantastic Four actor Joseph Quinn, 31, will be Harrison, leading Triangle Of Sadness cast member Harris Dickinson, 29, takes on the Lennon role and Gladiator II hunk Paul Mescal, 29, will be McCartney.
Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan , 31, has been cast as Linda McCartney, the muse to many of Paul McCartney’s songs
Paul McCartney and his wife Linda McCartney, of British rock group Wings, at Abbey Road Studios to record the album ‘Venus And Mars’ in 1974
White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood , 31, will play George Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd
Guitarist George Harrison poses for a portrait with his Pattie Boyd in 1966
Anna Sawai, 33, who has made a name for herself in the US drama series Shogun, will appear as John Lennon ’s wife Yoko Ono
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their home at Tittenhurst Park in 1970
British actress Mia McKenna-Bruce, 28, will play Maureen Cox, the wife of Ringo Starr
Drummer Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Cox during their honeymoon in Hove, East Sussex, in 1965
Entitled The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event, the project was announced last year.
The movies will each take the perspective of one member of The Beatles as they evolve from unknowns in Liverpool in the early 1960s to becoming the biggest band in the world and then breaking up in 1970.
It’s the first time that surviving Beatles McCartney and Starr, and the families of the late Lennon and Harrison, have given the rights to feature films about them.
Announcing the female foursome on Saturday, Mendes said: ‘Maureen, Linda, Yoko and Pattie are four fascinating and unique figures in their own right, and I’m thrilled that we’ve managed to persuade four of the most talented women working in film today to join this amazing adventure.’
