Barry Keoghan has gone full Beatles.

The Saltburn actor, who will painting drummer Ringo Starr in director Sam Mendes' extremely anticipated four-film mission on the Fab 4, has debuted his moptop coiffure.

Keoghan will star within the film taken from the attitude of Starr, considered one of two band members — the opposite being Paul McCartney — nonetheless residing. Paul Mescal will play McCartney.

Actors Harris Dickinson and Joseph Quinn will play the late John Lennon, who was murdered in December 1980, and George Harrison, who died of most cancers in November 2001, respectively.

The mission that Mendes has teased as a "four-film cinematic occasion" that can collectively inform "the story of the best band in historical past" is scheduled to reach in theaters, unexpectedly, in April 2028. The mission was introduced at ComicCon 2025.

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Keoghan revealed in July that he was engaged on display assessments for the film. He advised BBC's Radio 1 Breakfast present that he was very happy with the best way he appeared.

"It's nice. I look superb," Keoghan advised Quinn. "I'm not even messing — I look superb. I look extra Ringo than Ringo seems to be Ringo."

No huge deal or something, however Keoghan had famous a few months earlier throughout an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live that, nicely, he had some assist: an up-close have a look at the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer.

"I met him at his home, and he performed the drums for me," Keoghan mentioned then. "He requested me to play, however I wasn't enjoying the drums for Ringo."

Comprehensible. However at the least Keoghan already knew that Starr accredited of his casting.

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"After I was speaking to him, I couldn't have a look at him," Keoghan added. "I used to be nervous, like proper now. However he's like, 'You possibly can have a look at me.'"

And Keoghan had been working towards his enjoying for some time by then.

"We've been in full camp for like 16 or 17 weeks now," he mentioned at Fastnet Movie Competition close to Cork, Eire, in line with the U.Okay.'s The Solar in Could 2025. "It's simply an absolute pleasure. The camp is like boot camp, and it's a spot the place you could have time, and also you strive issues. It's a spot of failing, a spot of studying and making an attempt. That's the method I'm in now. It's a playground for me."

He additionally mentioned he had blisters on his arms.

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