Get ready to meet the McCartneys in Sam Mendes‘ forthcoming multi-film Beatles biopic. In April, the Fab Four cast was announced for the project, which dedicates an entire film to each member of the band. Paul Mescal landed the role of Paul McCartney. Now, Deadline reports that Saoirse Ronan will …
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I have a sneaking suspicion that everybody wants to be in a musical,” says Paul Mescal without a hint of irony, reaching into an off-license refrigerator and pulling out a pink G&T in a can. “Should we get a cold one of these?” He grabs two then saunters up to …
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She’s a woman who feels most at home in the natural world, curling up on forest floors in rural England and displaying a gift for falconry. He’s a young Latin tutor, barely out of his teens, desperately trying to pay off his father’s debts. They encounter each other outside of …
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Paul Mescal called Paul McCartney “an extraordinary man,” and revealed that he’s spent some time with the musician he’s playing in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic. Speaking with IndieWire, Mescal said of McCartney, “To spend any time — it’s a crazy sentence to say that I’ve spent time with that …
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The starring cast for the highly anticipated Beatles films helmed by director Sam Mendes was revealed in Las Vegas on Monday. When speaking at CinemaCon, Mendes announced that all four biopics will be released in April 2028, and paired the ambitious news by bringing out the cast for the Fab …
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Ridley Scott may have inadvertently revealed some major casting news during a Q&A with Christopher Nolan last night in Los Angeles. During a conversation with Christopher Nolan that followed a screening of Gladiator II at the Directors Guild of America, Scott confirmed his next project will be thriller The Dog …
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Saturday Night Live guest host and Gladiator II star Paul Mescal reimagined his role in that historical drama film as a gladiator who sings about how misunderstood he is. An extra 50 minutes of songs were added to the movie after a series of “rushed reshoots” spurred by the box …
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You will know the most gleeful, instantly gratifying, oh-this-is-going-to-be-good moment in Gladiator II when you see it. The dopamine peak of Ridley Scott‘s long-awaited sequel to his 2000 Oscar-winning epic isn’t the opening battle scene, in which Paul Mescal and his neighbors unleash hell on Roman centurions attacking them. It …
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Among all of the preparation Paul Mescal did for his starring role in Gladiator II (out now), the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 swords-and-sandals epic — hitting the gym six days a week and eating unholy amounts of chicken to add 18 pounds of muscle to his frame — some …
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And so we go once more into the Colosseum, a place where bread and circuses reign supreme. A mad emperor, his mind slowly rotting, puts a once-mighty empire on the brink of total and utter collapse. The ruling class has gone from corruptible to corrupt. The masses are kept distracted …
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