Thrilling to painting Yoko Ono in ‘The Beatles’: Anna Sawai

London: Actress Anna Sawai stated she is happy to essay the position of Japanese music legend Yoko Ono in filmmaker Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-part cinematic occasion on the British band ‘The Beatles’.

Sawai known as Ono an ‘unbelievable artist’ and stated it’s very significant to her to have the ability to painting a musician’s story within the movie.

“It’s simply thrilling as a result of her story is so inspirational to me and other people actually don’t know the true person who she was,” she instructed leisure journal ‘Folks’ in an interview.

She added, “She’s an unbelievable artist. And likewise, she was simply an impartial girl and other people didn’t like that. They wished John for themselves and he or she was a straightforward goal. And I believe it’s very significant for me to have the ability to inform her story… Simply how daring she is… I really like her. She’s so cool.”

‘The Beatles: A 4-Movie Cinematic Occasion’ will function Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

Fashioned in 1960 by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr, The Beatles grew to become some of the influential bands in music historical past with songs resembling ‘Hey Jude’, ‘I Wish to Maintain Your Hand’, ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Penny Lane’, earlier than breaking apart in 1970.

The venture will chronicle the story of the enduring band by means of 4 separate movies, every instructed from the angle of considered one of its members.

Sawai will subsequent function in ‘How one can Rob a Financial institution’, which is ready to launch in September. It additionally stars Nicholas Hoult alongside the actress.