Himesh Patel stars in Danny Boyles upcoming film Yesterday, a movie that supposes a world where The Beatles dont exist. In the film, Patels Jack Malik gets famous pretending hes the mastermind behind hits like Hard Days Night and Hey Jude. The British actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in support of the movie to unveil his version of the 1965 classic Yesterday.
In the clip, Patel performs the track on guitar and vocals, stripping the tune back as a string section adds another level of emotion to the performance. The song, originally written by Paul McCartney for the groups album Help!, takes on more an acoustic ballad vibe here than its initial version.
Yesterday, written by Love Actually scribe Richard Curtis, also stars Lily James, Kate McKinnon and Ed Sheeran, who plays himself in the film. The movie is Boyles first feature film since 2017sTrainspottingsequel,T2: Trainspotting.
Curtis recently spoke to the BBC about casting Sheeran in the film, saying When we came up to Suffolk to research the movie I just said to Ed why dont you come to dinner with Danny. I said after the dinner, Danny, if we cast him, hes not experienced at acting and Danny said from the way he is as a person, Im absolutely sure its gonna be fine. So Ed committed to rehearsal, instead of saying Ill just turn up, and Danny just gave him a few simple things. We were part of the miseducation of Ed Sheeran.
Boyle added, Obviously Eds a wonderful musician and it was amazing watching him in concert. But actually in terms of acting I felt I could help him a bit.
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