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And Finally
Macca on biopic inaccuracies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 28 June 2010
I think we all knew there were wild inaccuracies in Sam Taylor-Wood’s retelling of the early life of John Lennon and the formation of the pre-Hamburg Beatles, but ‘Nowhere Boy’ was a great film and I don’t really want to be reminded that that’s not exactly how things happened. So thanks Paul McCartney, for bringing it all up again.
Commenting on the two recent Lennon biopics, Taylor-Wood’s early-era cinema release and the BBC’s recent Yoko-era ‘Lennon Naked’, Macca said last week: “It’s a great tribute that whatever we did [back then] is so lasting that people can still make films about The Beatles which can be successful. For me, though, they’re not true, and that’s the unfortunate thing about them. For example, John never punched me out like he does in ‘Nowhere Boy'”.
Though, he conceded that “my character is kind of cool in the film, so I don’t mind being punched out”, while adding that when he spoke to Taylor-Wood about the inaccuracies she said: “Yeah; but Paul, it’s just a film”.
