Pattie Boyd Wonders Why She Hasn't Ben Contacted About The Beatles' Biopics
Earlier this week, model, photographer, and ex-wife of George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, appeared on the inaugural episode of Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road To Tulsa Time, a new podcast hosted by music industry icon Chris O'Dell, who worked with everyone from the Beatles to the Stones to Bob Dylan. Around the 33-minute mark, O'Dell asks Boyd about the ambitious Beatles biopic project from Sam Mendes that’s currently in the works. Aimee Lou Wood was cast to play Boyd in the upcoming film, which Boyd learned about not because Mendes, or anyone working on the project, reached out to her. And, she does not seem happy about it.
“Now, I might be completely wrong, but I would have thought it would be polite to mention it to me or let me know that they got someone who’s going to be playing me. Don’t you think they’d let me know? Well, I haven’t been contacted by anyone,” she said. “I could have really told them great stories. But I don’t think they want to know. I think they want to create something that’s completely different, like a different story.”
Boyd added that the forthcoming biopics seem to have “nothing to do with the truth. Nothing to do with what really happened because they don’t want to talk to anyone who was there.” Instead, it’s “the filmmaker’s creation of what they think happened.”
I mean, she has a point here. It would make sense that someone would reach out to her, not only to get her perspective, but also because Wood is literally portraying her in the film. In an interview from this March, Wood gave some vague quotes about how intimidating this biopic project is. “I am going to have to really prep, and I am going to have to really be detailed about that, because she is someone who is so recognisable, and obviously not do an impression," she said.
Well, duh. And again, I am confused about why not actually contacting Boyd would be part of the prep. But hey, I know nada about this Hollywood business stuff.
Source: stereogum.com/Margaret Farrell
