{"id":31411,"date":"2025-02-10T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/star-of-brian-epstein-biopic-midas-man-says-the-beatles-needed-epstein-to-be-the-adult-in-the-room\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:02:28","slug":"star-of-brian-epstein-biopic-midas-man-says-the-beatles-needed-epstein-to-be-the-adult-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/star-of-brian-epstein-biopic-midas-man-says-the-beatles-needed-epstein-to-be-the-adult-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Star of Brian Epstein biopic ‘Midas Man’ says The Beatles needed Epstein to be ‘the adult in the room’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Midas Man<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, about The Beatles<\/strong>‘ manager Brian Epstein<\/strong>, is now streaming. Epstein, a gay man from an immigrant Jewish family, died of an accidental drug overdose at age 32 after shepherding the Fab Four and other music acts to worldwide fame. Queen’s Gambit<\/em> actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd<\/strong>, who plays Epstein, says he initially\u00a0didn’t know much about\u00a0Epstein\u00a0\u2014 or even The Beatles’ music.<\/p>\n

“There was so many songs that I really hadn’t heard properly before. … So, yeah, I spent a lot of time listening,” he tells ABC Audio. “It was like a real perk of the job. I mean, I felt like, ‘I’m listening to albums. That’s my work for the day. … Lucky me.’ But …\u00a0somehow being familiar [with the songs] felt important.”<\/p>\n

Fortune-Lloyd also studied up on Epstein, who died in 1967, and he concludes that Epstein was the “perfect manager” for The Beatles because he “understood what artists needed to create.”<\/p>\n

He says, “When people talk about The Beatles and the extraordinary things they were doing … I think without someone like Brian looking after things, being the adult in the room, giving them the space to create and not have to worry about anything else\u00a0\u2014 I don’t think they could do that.”<\/p>\n

Midas Man<\/em> is a sympathetic portrait of a troubled man, and Fortune-Lloyd said he’d “love” for\u00a0Paul McCartney<\/strong> and Ringo Starr<\/strong>\u00a0to see it, though he\u00a0suggests it might be “difficult to watch,” seeing as how they were “so close” to Epstein.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been made aware that they know about the film, and I really hope that they get to see it,” he says. “I hope they recognize and appreciate that we tried to honor the man and their relationship, and we created a loving portrayal of their friend. So, it’d be beautiful to share it with them.”<\/p>\n