Yesterday
Warning ! SPOILERS forYesterday .
Danny Boyle’sYesterdaycontains a big shock : John Lennon is active in the film ’s alternate reality ! However , the actor who plays Lennon might be a mystery to spectator . Yesterday ’s unusual construct posits a world where the Beatles and their music never be after a magical incident called the Blackout change key elements of chronicle . After the Blackout , Jack Malik ( Himesh Patel ) seems to be the only person who remembers the Beatles and he becomes rich and famous performing their music while posing as its creator .
Of course , in the veridical world , John Lennon was one of the founding members of the Beatles , alongside Paul McCartney , George Harrison , and Ringo Starr . The Beatles are the most commercially successful band of all - time and Lennon and McCartney are a legendary songwriting couple creditworthy for their greatest striking . The Beatles check upin 1969 , whereupon Lennon began a solo career and later formed a new band , the Plastic Ono Band , with his wife Yoko Ono . Tragically , John was off on December 8 , 1980 , when he was shot repeatedly by a man named Mark David Chapman .
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In young moving-picture show , Jack is shock to chance on a 78 - class - old John Lennon alive and well , subsist a placid and peaceful life in the British seaboard . An uncreditedRobert Carlyle plays John Lennon inYesterday . However , some sports fan may not recognize Carlyle due to the actor ’s uncanny resemblance to the late Beatle ( which is emphasise with a bit of make-up , a wigging , and Lennon ’s notable dress circle - chassis glass ) .
For his part , Robert Carlyle is an honor - winning actor and a longtime friend of director Danny Boyle ; in the 1990s , Carlyle gained fame by star as the grievous felon Francis Begbie in Boyle’sTrainspottingand he returned for its sequel , T2 Trainspotting . Carlyle also won the BAFTA for Best Actor in a prima Role for his carrying out in the outside hitThe Full Monty . He then made his blockbuster enfranchisement debut as the villainous Renard in the James Bond filmThe World Is Not Enough . More latterly , Carlyle appear in24 : salvation , played Mr. Gold aka Rumplestiltskin in the boob tube seriesOnce Upon A Time , and he will appear in the BBC ’s remaking ofWar of the Worlds .
Yesterdaydoesn’taddress the whereabouts of the other Beatles , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , and George Harrison . It ’s possible George , who died in 2001 , remains so in the movie ’s revised timeline , but Paul and Ringo could still be alert . At the very least , the surviving two Beatles haunt Jack Malik ’s dreams inYesterdayas he ’s excruciate by his guilt over the fact that he ’s fraudulently expire himself off as the author of the Beatles ' music . Ultimately , George is only mention inYesterday , while Paul and Ringo appear in Jack ’s nightmare where they face him onThe belated Late Show with James Corden- although their faces are never shown .
Rather , Yesterdaybrings the house down by reveal John Lennon is alive , which was a stunningly brave move by the filmmakers . Indeed , Jack meeting John was the poignant moment that forced Jack to realize what he really wants in life : the love of his manager and upright friend Ellie Appleton ( Lily James ) , which is the true heart ofYesterday ’s history .
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