paul mescal... you go to do character preparation to play paul mccartney and you select, i don’t know, that regressive ian leslie book for instance. because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about previous portrayals of the beatles, but what you don’t know is that mclennon isn’t just a subversive acting choice that’ll earn you an oscar nomination, it’s not just shipping, it’s not just RPF, it actually happened.
you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that, in 2000, michael lindsay-hogg did a movie about john and paul, and then it was aaron taylor johnson and thomas brodie sangster, wasn’t it? who were in the mclennon multiverse video. i think we need a mclennon monday video here.
and then mclennon quickly showed up in the fanfiction of eight different bloggers. then it filtered down through the podcasters, the youtubers, and then trickled on down into some tragic waterstones where you, no doubt, plucked it off some new releases display table.
however, that mclennon represents millions of hours of analysis, connection and interpretation by gay fans, and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that separates you from an existing understanding of the beatles when, in fact, you’re opting for a portrayal that was selected for you by the people on this website… from a pile of “stuff”