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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Paul Mescal wants public to know 'as little as possible' about Beatles movies before release
Caption: Paul Mescal wants public to know 'as little as possible' about Beatles movies before release. The Irish actor and his co-stars Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn will be spending 2026 shooting the ambitious four-film project, in which they play Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, respectively. While Mescal has divulged minor details about the films, such as the fact that he will be doing his own singing, he is reluctant to give too much away and ruin the cinema experience for audiences in 2028. ”To be honest, I can say very little - actually contractually, but also I'm kind of keen to say very little about it, because I'm excited that people want to know so much about it," he told Variety. "I don't want to get into the Beatles thing, not coyly, but actually because I think the world hopefully will benefit from knowing as little as possible going into it.” However, the Gladiator II star noted that they were "a while away from finishing" the project, which he described as a "totally singular" experience. ”The four of us inside it are pinching ourselves. On a personal level, I'm so thrilled to be working on something at this scale, but also rooted in performance with (director) Sam (Mendes) and great writers," he shared. ”But also just to be living and working in London and to have some sort of stability in what has been like a kind of mad six, seven years since Normal People came out... That's my job for all of 2026.” However, the 29-year-old will also spend several weeks shooting Richard Linklater's film adaptation of the Merrily We Roll Along stage musical. Portions of the film, also starring Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt, will be shot every year until around 2040. The Normal People actor revealed in a recent interview that he will be stepping away from the public eye between the end of the Hamnet awards campaign in March and the release of the Beatles movies in April 2028. Instructions: THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
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