While nothing is confirmed, rumors of Gladiator II star Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopics from Sam Mendes have surfaced. During an interview with Mescal about Gladiator II, I asked him what he would ask McCartney if he met him in preparation for playing him in the biopics.

"When we came, it was quite shortly after Kennedy being assassinated," Paul McCartney says in the trailer, released Thursday. "Maybe America needed something like The Beatles to be lifted out of sorrow." McCartney and Ringo Starr are among the documentary's producers, while David Tedeschi serves as director.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reflected on The Beatles' "crazy" arrival in America in a trailer for a new Disney+ documentary. 'Beatles ’64' will follow John Lennon, Sir Paul, George Harrison, and Sir Ringo on their journey from Liverpool to superstardom in the United States in 1964.

Paul McCartney plays the opening song from the Beatles' first album on the Got Back Tour. Surprisingly, one of the Beatles ' most iconic songs is not often played by Paul McCartney on his Got Back Tour.