Cinemabeatles: Barry Keoghan met Ringo Starr to ‘Study’ for Irish actor films will embody the Beatles drummer in a series of Sam Mendes, director of 1917 and American Writing.

Barry Keoghan has been preparing to interpret Ringo Starr in the next project of Sam Mendes on the four members of Beatlesformed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison and Starr. In participation in Jimmy Kimmel Live (via Rolling Stone), the actor confirmed that he visited Starr in your home.

“I met Ringo Another day, ”he said Keoghan the Kimmel. “I met at his house, and he played drums to me. He invited me to play, but I wasn’t going to play drums to Ringo. ”

“Was he playing to show you how he does?” he asked Kimmel. “Yes,” he answered Keoghan. “He wasn’t just playing when I entered. We went there. We talked first, we had a coffee. It was one of those moments when you get in admiration and simply crashes.”

Keoghan added that he observed Starr to absorb as much as possible for your interpretation. “I said that to him, and while talking, I couldn’t look at him,” he recalled. “I was nervous, like now. But he said, ‘You can look at me’ … my job is to observe, capture the mannerisms and study it. I want to humanize it and bring feelings to interpretation, not just imitate it.”

The actor stated that Starr It was “absolutely lovely” and that the two “simply sat in the garden and talked a lot.”

Mendes will direct four films, one for each Beatles member. In addition to Keoghan, MESCAL PAUL will interpret Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson it will be John Lennonand Joseph Quinn will interpret George Harrison. Biographical films will be released by Sony Pictures in April 2028.

“It is an honor to tell the story of the biggest rock band of all time, and I am excited to challenge the notion of what it means to go to the cinema,” he said Mendes previously. The Director – Known for American beauty (1999), It was just a dream (2008), 007 – Operation Skyfall (2012) and others – will be the first to have full access to both the band’s life stories and the band’s musical rights for a scripted movie.

In fact, it was Starr Who ended up revealing the lineup of Keoghan before the official announcement, such as the actor and Kimmel mentioned in the interview. In conversation with the Entertainment Tonight In November, the drummer commented on the rumors and said, “I think it’s great, I believe it’s out there taking drums. I hope not many.”

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