Gladiator II director Ridley Scott appeared to confirm a longstanding film-industry rumour that Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney in the four-film Beatles biopic announced by Sam Mendes earlier this year.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Scott let slip the information during an on-stage conversation with Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan after a screening of Gladiator II in Los Angeles. Nolan asked Scott if Mescal, lead actor in Gladiator II, would appear in Scott’s next film, post-apocalyptic thriller The Dog Stars, adapted from a novel by Peter Heller. Scott replied: “Maybe. Paul is actually stacked up, doing the Beatles next. So I may have to let him go.”
