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Gary Bakewell (born December 1968) is a Scottish television actor who is best known for his role as Paul McCartney in the film Backbeat. [1] As well as twice portraying Paul McCartney (in Backbeat and The Linda McCartney Story) he has appeared in a number of television series including Chef!, Doctors and Spooks.
Gary Bakewell is known for Backbeat (1994), Neverwhere (1996) and The Linda McCartney Story (2000). More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Resume. Add to list. Photos 23. Known for. Backbeat. 6.6. Paul McCartney. 1994. Neverwhere. 7.2. TV Mini Series. Richard Mayhew. 1996 • 6 eps. The Linda McCartney Story. 5.9. TV Movie. Paul McCartney. 2000.
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The film begins in the summer of 1960, with the Beatles sailing for the continent. John Lennon (Ian Hart) is sick on Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell)'s shoes. Possibly this is a metaphor. They are signed up for a three-month residency at a Hamburg club. "It was a jungle of neon and sex," the real Pete Best later told an interviewer, "where every othe...
The film-makers responded creatively to the fact that they didn't have the right to use any Beatles recordings. They recreated tracks with a covers band featuring Dave Grohl of Nirvana, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Mike Mills of REM – meaning the Backbeat soundtrack is itself now a noteworthy historical archive of 1990s musicians.
"It's Stu," McCartney complains to Lennon about Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff). "He just stands there." The film is right that Sutcliffe's lack of musical ability was a problem from the start. He was only in the band because he was Lennon's best friend. Predictably, when they get to Hamburg, art school boy Sutcliffe falls head over heels for an e...
The film's strength is the intriguing love triangle between Sutcliffe, Lennon and Kirchherr. Kirchherr tells Lennon he is jealous. "Jealous of Stu?" he sneers. "Jealous of me," she replies. The hints Backbeat drops about an intimate level of attachment between Lennon and Sutcliffe are backed up by Sutcliffe's sister, Pauline Sutcliffe. In her 2001 ...
The tension between Sutcliffe and Lennon ends with a physical fight. "In the film Backbeat the confrontation is presented as bloody but in a bloody-nose sort of way," Pauline Sutcliffe wrote, "fisticuffs that end in a tearful hug. That was not even close to what really happened." In her discussion of that fight, she stated: "Stuart said John kicked...
Backbeat is a historically plausible take on the relationships between John Lennon, Stuart Sutcliffe and Astrid Kirchherr, and a thoughtful, engaging film.
Gary Bakewell. Biografia, filmografia, premi, trailer, news e rassegna stampa.
Gary Bakewell as Paul McCartney; Chris O'Neill as George Harrison; Scot Williams as Pete Best; Kai Wiesinger as Klaus Voormann; Jennifer Ehle as Cynthia Powell
- $2,392,589
- Don Was
- 14 April 1994
16 apr 2024 · In tal senso il più azzeccato è Gary Bakewell, che incarna un Paul McCartney già scaltro e imprenditoriale, anche se le simpatie del regista vanno tutte a John Lennon, reso con la giusta dose...
Gary Bakewell. Biografia, filmografia, premi, trailer, news e rassegna stampa.
