Oct 14, 2026 · 4 min · 6 segments
The Shaw Report had all the latest showbiz news including a Beatles star mad about the height of his actor in his own biopic, Diddy's real reason for being taken to a hospital and an unfortunate…
Yep
... with four movies, one for each Beatle, coming out all at once.
Now he's getting picky.
He says Paul Mescal, who's playing him, appears smaller than Harris Dickinson, who's playing John Lennon, whereas in reality they were the same height.
Now, when I first saw this story, I figured, I figured his tongue was firmly in his cheek.
Yep.
But reading a bit further into it-
He's re- he's for real
...
it seems he literally is fairly paid off about it because he said he was similarly disappointed when Sam Taylor-Johnson made that 2009 movie, Nowhere Man, and the guy playing Paul was shorter than the guy playing John in that.
And back then, he contacted Taylor-Johnson to object, and he says her only explanation for the size disparity was that she was making a movie, not a documentary.
[laughs] Which he wasn't ...
He said, "I wasn't happy with that explanation." Anyhoo.
Oh, my gosh.
And he, and legs that are taller-
Yeah
... than John's apparently.
A longer leg- longer legacies.
A longer legs-acy.
[laughs]
Anyhoo, there's still a while to wait for these movies to come out.
Yep
... with four movies, one for each Beatle, coming out all at once.
Now he's getting picky.
He says Paul Mescal, who's playing him, appears smaller than Harris Dickinson, who's playing John Lennon, whereas in reality they were the same height.
Now, when I first saw this story, I figured, I figured his tongue was firmly in his cheek.
Yep.
But reading a bit further into it-
He's re- he's for real
...
it seems he literally is fairly paid off about it because he said he was similarly disappointed when Sam Taylor-Johnson made that 2009 movie, Nowhere Man, and the guy playing Paul was shorter than the guy playing John in that.
And back then, he contacted Taylor-Johnson to object, and he says her only explanation for the size disparity was that she was making a movie, not a documentary.
[laughs] Which he wasn't ...
He said, "I wasn't happy with that explanation." Anyhoo.
Oh, my gosh.
And he, and legs that are taller-
Yeah
... than John's apparently.
A longer leg- longer legacies.
A longer legs-acy.
[laughs]
Anyhoo, there's still a while to wait for these movies to come out.
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