Paul McCartney Shares the Hilarious Beatles Biopic Inaccuracy He Can’t Get Over: ‘Don’t Do This!’

During a recent episode of the "Good Hang" podcast, Apple co-founder and former Beatle Paul McCartney shared his one historical inaccuracy that he cannot get past in the upcoming four Beatles biopic films. The director of one of these films, Sam Mendes, asked McCartney who among the Beatles was the tallest, and the musician responded that "we were all the same height."

This revelation became problematic when director Sam Taylor-Johnson was making her 2009 biopic about John Lennon, "Nowhere Boy," as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who portrayed Lennon, was taller than co-star Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who played McCartney. In response to his friend's explanation that it was a movie and not a documentary, McCartney said, "I thought, 'Well, I don't like that explanation.

It's not true!'" Poehler noted that it must be "strange" to watch actors play yourself onscreen, and McCartney shared that he already had one concern with the upcoming films. "Guess what? He's smaller than the guy who plays John!", McCartney observed, referencing the size difference between himself and John Lennon in the films. He expressed his frustration to Mendes, saying, "Don't do this!" and sent him a photo of themselves crossing the Abbey Road crossing, highlighting the discrepancy in their sizes.