The Beatles Films Podcast

Next up: it's the 2010 BBC TV movie starring Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon, and Andrew Scott as Paul McCartney. We get into the film's approach, in which it frames the story around John's meetings with his father, and ask how successfully it makes the point it's trying to: that Freddie Lennon's abandoning him was the main catalyst for John's emotional turmoil, and that primal scream therapy allowed him to overcome it.

We look too at Eccleston's performance, and ask how he stacks up against the other Lennon big hitters like Ian Hart and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. And does the film do Yoko Ono a disservice?

• You can pick up Lennon Naked on DVD.
• The BBC website has a page on the film with a couple of clips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sv451
• The Second Coming, the other Eccleston performance that Ed mentions: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/
• Christopher Fairbank in Eastenders, playing Eddie Knight, a very similar character to Freddie Lennon: https://youtu.be/dTa6ZhOa-6s

Meet the Beatles Films Podcast

The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by Matt Looker and Ed Williamson. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for TheShiznit.co.uk, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.

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