Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes’ four-part series of Beatles biopics, Variety reports. She joins the previously announced core cast of Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.
Linda and Paul McCartney married in 1969. She’s jointly credited on 1971’s Ram, and performed as a keyboardist and backup singer in his post-Beatles band Wings. Linda McCartney’s first and only solo album, Wide Prairie, was released after hear death from breast cancer in 1998.
Ronan recently led the 2023 sci-fi film Foe alongside Mescal. She also starred in a Mike Mills-directed music video for Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary earlier this year.
Set for release in April 2028, Mendes’ tetralogy will mark the first scripted films to be granted the Beatles’ music and life rights. It is unclear whether Ronan’s Linda McCartney will appear in all four films or solely the one centered on Mescal’s Macca.
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