Starr said he gave “extensive notes” to director Mendes while fact-checking the scripts. The scenes in particular that depicted Starr’s family and his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett (whose casting has not yet been announced), were among the sequences that Starr urged to have reworked.

Ringo Starr has strong opinions about how he’ll be portrayed in the four upcoming Beatles biopics. The musician, 84, told The New York Times on Wednesday, July 2, that he spent two days with the director,

Starr, who will be portrayed in the film by Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan, wed Tigrett in 1965 and divorced a decade later. They had three children together, including former The Who drummer Zak Starkey, son Jason, and daughter Lee.