It’s been a minute since any of us have seen Barry Keoghan, so you can forgive a bit of surprise when the Irish actor rocked up to the Crime 101 premiere on January 28 with a haircut that can only be described as LEGO man–esque. Keoghan’s overgrown bowl cut was a shock not only because we’ve never seen him look like this before, but because it was the first public clue of what he may look like when he plays Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes’s forthcoming Beatles biopics. Has anyone figured out what we’re calling these four movies yet? On paper, they’re The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event, but that can’t be what we’re supposed to be saying all the time. What about, like, Fab Fourtet?
For a brief handful of hours, it seemed like Keoghan’s red-carpet mop top was going to be our first and only look at what he — or Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, or Joseph Quinn — would look like as his respective Beatle. On the morning of January 29, we got our first look at each of our forthcoming Beatles boys in a series of postcards that Sony gave to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (or LIPA — no Dua) for students to find around the building.
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If there’s one thing that Sam Mendes understands, it’s that John Lennon wore tiny glasses, and now so does Harris Dickinson.
Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr
Yes, his face looks both swollen and yassified, but Keoghan has managed to capture the iconic “Ringo glare,” a.k.a. what he looked like when he tried to figure out what kind of animal’s garden he wanted to write a song about. It’s easy to laugh at his hair out of context, but he actually grew out a pretty effective mop, so you have to hand it to him, especially once we get to what they want us to think George Harrison looked like.
Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney
Is this a Big Little Lies wig? Please: We have two years to fix this. Someone fix this.
