Paul Mescal has reportedly been told to bulk down for his upcoming portrayal of Paul McCartney in The Beatles biopics.
News broke earlier in the week that the Normal People star would join the highly anticipated Sam Mendes’ project The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event.
Alongside him will be fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan who’ll play Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson of Babygirl fame who'll will portray the late John Lennon, and Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn who'll take on the part of the late George Harrison.
However, Paul’s current physique is apparently too muscular and he’s been told to slim down ahead of filming.
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Coming off the back of playing Lucius Verus Aurelius in Gladiator II, Paul is used to keeping it lean however he’ll need to change things up moving forward.
For his role in the Roman sequel he hired an ex-Royal Navy personal trainer to help him put on 22lbs in muscle by training six days a week.
Sources have since claimed, according to The Sun: “Obviously there weren’t really gyms around in the Sixties. The Beatles weren’t dead-lifting between gigs.
“Macca was always pretty lean and flexible — he has always been really into yoga — but this is a very different aesthetic to that of a burly gladiator, and Paul has been keeping his body pretty ripped, even after filming stopped.
“Sir Paul McCartney is also famously a vegetarian, whereas Paul mainly lives on a high protein steak, chicken and eggs diet.
“There also weren’t whey protein shakes back in the Beatles’ day.”
The project will see four separate films hit the cinema - from each of the band members’ perspective - all in the same month of April 2028.
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