Pattie Boyd has claimed no one working on the Beatles biopics has contacted her about the project, despite being played by Aimee Lou Wood in the movies.
Not Letting Boyd Know
Her relationship with George Harrison – whom she met in 1964, married in 1966, and divorced in 1977 – will be covered as part of Sam Mendes’ upcoming four films on the rock band, formed of George, Ringo Starr, Sir Paul McCartney, and John Lennon.
Pattie knows Aimee Lou Wood plays her, but she wants to talk to a worker on the biopics – starring Joseph Quinn (George), Barry Keoghan (Ringo), Paul Mescal (Paul), and Harris Dickinson (John) – to ensure her and George’s romance is told accurately.
The 82-year-old model claimed on a recent episode of the Miss O’Dell: Abbey Road To Tulsa Time podcast, “I heard that this actress is going to be playing me.”
“Now, I might be completely wrong, but I would have thought it would be polite to mention it to me, or let me know if they’ve got someone who’s going to be playing me, wouldn’t you think they’d let me know? But I haven’t been contacted by anyone.”
Happily Help Out
Pattie noted that she would happily consult scenes involving her and George.
The photographer said, “I could have really told them great stories, but I don’t think they want to know. I think they want to create something that’s completely different, like a different story.”
Pattie thinks the biopics may be the “filmmakers’ creation of what they think had happened.”
She continued, “[It could be] nothing to do with the truth. Nothing to do with what really happened because they didn’t want to talk to anyone that was there.”
Pattie insisted she is not going to get upset over her claim that no one has contacted her about the upcoming four Beatles biopics, which are set to premiere in April 2028.
The star said, “I’m going to be a very good girl and not get grumpy and growly.”
Pattie added, “But maybe I’m just old-fashioned, you see. People don’t really have manners anymore. But you know what? Nobody cares. And if somebody doesn’t care, you can’t do anything about it.”
Pattie and George’s Romance
Pattie and George’s romance was a famous love triangle as she was pursued by musician Eric Clapton, whom she married in 1979 and divorced in 1989.
Their love triangle was laid bare in a series of “desperate and passionate” love letters from the two men. She later sold them as part of an auction in March 2024.
Some of the love letters include one sent by Eric, questioning if Pattie still loved George, or if she had found a new flame, four years into her marriage.
And Wonderful Tonight hitmaker Eric told Pattie that “if there is still a feeling in your heart for me… you must let me know!”
Letters from Eric
Pattie sold the letters because they are “too painful in their beauty.”
She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper, “I’ve had them all for so many years – far too long. I thought, ‘Why don’t I just sell everything and let everybody else enjoy it?’
“The letters from Eric – they’re so desperate and passionate, a passion that blooms once in a lifetime, I think. Even now, if I were to read those letters, it makes me terribly sad. I’ve had them in a little trunk, and occasionally I’ll have a look and start to read, and my heart beats, it jumps, because it’s heartbreaking. They’re too painful in their beauty.”
Pattie said Eric was “absolutely fine with me auctioning everything.” She also noted that he would not want his old love letters back.
Pattie said, “I would have imagined that, like me, he’s moved on. He’s got such a different life. I doubt very much he’ll buy them back.”
The media personality has been married to property developer Rod Weston since 2015.