How 'Yesterday's' Himesh Patel was turned into a credible musical performer
material he’d be performing. Pemberton hesitated until Boyle promised the job would only last three or four weeks.In the film, Patel plays Jack Malik, a struggling singer who is about to give up on his career when an unexplained phenomenon erases all memory of thefrom the entire world — except, amazingly, for him. He starts playing Beatles songs that nobody else knows and is acclaimed as a songwriting genius.
All or part of 25 Beatles songs are heard in the film, mostly sung by Patel live on the set. Pemberton says the choices of what wound up in the film were “all in flux,” with some locked in early and others that became key moments later . “Penny Lane” was among those considered but dropped along the way.
Pemberton says that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were consulted “behind the scenes” but that he wasn’t involved with them. Following on the theme of the film, “the Beatles sadly don’t exist in the world I was working in,” he says.
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