Let It Be! The Beatles Biopic is Coming, Dramatic Hair Transformations and All

Babygirl and Beach Rats actor Harris Dickinson takes on the role of the late John Lennon. From what we can glean from the low-lit postcard picture, he’s captured Lennon with his extra-long shag, which became his signature look. No full beard just yet, so this is likely Abbey Road Sessions and Yoko Ono-era John. In 1970, Lennon shaved his head, but it remains to be seen how much Dickinson will embrace all of John’s striking images.

Joseph Quinn as George Harrison

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George Harrison’s thick, collar-length hair was always notably much more voluminous than his bandmates’, so Stranger Things’s Joseph Quinn might have had some help from a wig or some well-placed extensions here. With floppy curtains and a center part, his wavy ’do reflected his countercultural thinking, getting longer and wilder as he embraced spirituality and mysticism.

As one colleague asked, “Joseph Quinn beachy waves hair tutorial, when?”

Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney

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Sure, Paul McCartney cycled through the wild mullets and (sometimes fake!) moustaches, but in the annals of pop culture, Paul will always be defined by the bowl cut. Here, we see Hamnet’s Paul Mescal embrace early-era Paul, with his forward-brushed bangs and scissor-cut sides. (Mescal has been on the awards season circuit with a remarkably different ‘do, so it looks like he opted out of a McCartney-esque cut in favor of a wig.) Let it be, let it be, remains McCartney’s own grooming mantra, having embraced his silver gray hair in recent years.

While we wait for a trailer, we have one simple plea: A request for Vogue Beauty Secrets four-parter. Joking, but also, not really.