{"id":28993,"date":"2024-03-12T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sean-ono-lennon-reveals-who-hed-like-to-see-play-his-dad-in-sam-mendes-biopic\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:02:10","slug":"sean-ono-lennon-reveals-who-hed-like-to-see-play-his-dad-in-sam-mendes-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sean-ono-lennon-reveals-who-hed-like-to-see-play-his-dad-in-sam-mendes-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Ono Lennon reveals who he\u2019d like to see play his dad in Sam Mendes biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-11\/M_SeanLennonOscars_031124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Sean Lennon, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Photo credit: Disney\/Scott Kirkland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was recently announced that <strong>Sam Mendes<\/strong> would be directing four different <strong>Beatles<\/strong> biopics, one for each member of the group.\u00a0<strong>Sean Ono Lennon<\/strong> has an interesting idea about who he\u2019d like to see play his dad,\u00a0<strong>John Lennon<\/strong>,\u00a0on the big screen.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m hoping that <strong>Emma Stone<\/strong> might consider it because she did such a good job in \u2018Poor Things,\u2019\u201d Lennon joked with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/sean-ono-lennon-sam-mendes-beatles-movies-1235937038\/?cx_testId=48&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_1&amp;cx_artPos=5#cxrecs_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> on the Oscars red carpet. \u201cI think if you\u2019re gonna reach that as an actor, the next obvious step is to really go for it and be John Lennon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sean, Lennon\u2019s only son, with wife <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>, does\u00a0believe that finding someone to play his father won\u2019t exactly be easy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI do think with someone as famous as my dad, it\u2019s very hard to cast a film like that,\u201d he says. \u201cThere have been some very successful biopics about music people. \u2018La Vie en Rose\u2019 was incredible. \u2018Ray\u2019 was amazing. You can pull it off, and I think we\u2019re gonna do a good job, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lennon also joked that he\u2019s up for\u00a0pitching in\u00a0with the film any way he can, noting, \u201cI\u2019m the DP. I\u2019m the grip. And I\u2019m also catering, which you wouldn\u2019t expect that, but I\u2019ll be cooking up a storm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Lennon, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Photo credit: Disney\/Scott Kirkland It was recently announced that Sam Mendes would be directing four different Beatles biopics, one for each member of the group.\u00a0Sean Ono Lennon has an interesting idea about who he\u2019d like to see play his dad,\u00a0John Lennon,\u00a0on the big screen.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sean-ono-lennon-reveals-who-hed-like-to-see-play-his-dad-in-sam-mendes-biopic\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}