Eighty-year-old Lennon had to exude Lennon, and feel spiritually connected to the man’s history of interview quotes, lyrics, poetic thought. Yesterday’s alt-universe version had to live up the real-life icon. He knew that his character Jack was about to converse with John Lennon, but he didn’t know just how much it would feel like actually conversing with John Lennon.ĭressing Carlyle up like Lennon was only half the challenge.
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According to Patel, who spilled a few details at a BAFTA screening shortly before release, the director didn’t let his star see Carlyle in full makeup until he showed up to set. Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle and Himesh Patel at the Tribeca premiere of Yesterday Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festivalīoyle knew the power of his only-possible-in-the-movies image. Though unlisted in the credits, Trainspotting actor Robert Carlyle was enlisted to bring the late musician back to life. Boyle explained that his team appealed to Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, who whole-heartedly approved of the scene. Jack’s beachside conversation with Lennon sucks the air out of the room, a powerful use of special effects and makeup, but one on the edge of sacrilege.
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Yesterday clears up any confusion by introducing us to an aged Lennon, who never became one of the most famous voices on the planet, whose words of peace and love were never spread across every paper and TV set on the planet, and who was never assassinated by Mark Chapman at the Dakota Hotel in 1980. Songs like “Let It Be,” “Help!,” and “Hey Jude” never existed - but, in theory, the people who wrote them did. The premise was sitting on the table: after an intergalactic energy blast tweaks the history of culture and invention ever so slightly, Jack is suddenly one of the few people on the planet who remembers the Beatles discography. “This is what movies can do,” he said, explaining why he resurrected John Lennon as an 78-year-old man who speaks words of wisdom to the protagonist Jack Malick (Hamish Patel). Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and Disclaimerīy entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions.After the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Yesterday, the new musical rom-com that imagines a world where Beatlesmania never happened, director Danny Boyle took the stage to react to that moment.
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