John Lennon's sister hits out at Beatles biopic casting: "He should be a scouser!"

John Lennon's half sister Julia believes he should have been played by a Scouser in the new Hollywood film.

Sam Mendes is making four films, one for each , and will be played by Harris Dickinson. But asked if she would have preferred someone from Liverpool, Julia Baird said: Yes, of course. No one else can get that Liverpool intonation. Nobody."

She also said it was highly unlikely would get in touch with her for advice. "He's never going to ask me! I'm the last person he would want to talk to because then he can't make it up," she added.

Director Sir is making four separate films about the legendary band and he has now revealed that the biopics will be released in April 2028, in what he described as the first "bingeable moment in cinema" and confirmed who will be playing the Fab Four.

Paul Mescal will star as Sir Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan will play Sir Ringo Starr, Harris will portray the late John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn is on board as the late George Harrison.

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Director Mendes, 59, hailed the Beatles as possibly the "most significant band of all time" who had "redefined the culture and stayed with you for a lifetime."

Lennon’s sister Julia is behind a new multi-sensory exhibit about Lennon's unorthodox early life which will be on show from next month at a new London Pop experience.

She insists the mum she shared with John, also called Julia, did not want to give him up to go and live with his aunt Mimi. And she says John teamed up with Paul McCartney as he knew it would be good for his Quarryman band.

"John said he did look a bit like Elvis, so he would have been jealous of that but he realised it was good for the group,” Baird told the Sunday Telegraph.

She describes John as a "brilliant older brother, very bossy - a family trait”. They spoke a lot on the phone in his final years in New York and last chatted on November 17 1980 when they planned a family reunion.

Three weeks later he was shot dead outside his New York apartment by Mark Chapman.

He had spent the final years of his life in the US with his wife Yoko Ono who is still living there. Last month a new book revealed how she was living out her final days “in a happy place” quietly “listening to the wind and watching the sky” according to her family.

Yoko by David Sheff quoted daughter Kyoko saying: “She believed she could change the , and she did…now she is able to be quiet - listen to the wind and watch the sky.”

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