{"id":2291582,"date":"2026-02-20T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291582"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:27:37","slug":"anna-sawai-on-playing-yoko-ono-in-the-beatles-movies-theres-a-version-of-her-i-feel-people-still-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/anna-sawai-on-playing-yoko-ono-in-the-beatles-movies-theres-a-version-of-her-i-feel-people-still-dont-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Sawai on Playing Yoko Ono in \u2018The Beatles\u2019 Movies: \u2018There\u2019s a Version of Her I Feel People Still Don\u2019t Understand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Anna Sawai<\/a> has been busy conquering TV and film, the Emmy-winning \u201cSh\u014dgun<\/a>\u201d star first got her start in show business as a member of the J-pop band Faky. Now, Sawai is going back to her musical roots in the role of Yoko Ono<\/a> in Sam Mendes\u2019 forthcoming \u201cBeatles\u201d biopics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my dream to tell her story and I didn\u2019t think it would come this quick,\u201d Sawai told Variety at the Los Angeles premiere of Apple TV\u2019s \u201cMonarch: Legacy of Monsters<\/a>\u201d Season 2 on Thursday night. \u201cThere\u2019s a version of her I feel people still don\u2019t understand. And in this film, I think we\u2019re going to be able to tell that side of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

To prepare, Sawai has been busy reading everything she can about the artist and musician. \u201cSo much reading, oh my gosh,\u201d she said. \u201cSo many books, so many videos, so many articles\u2026…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Anna Sawai has been busy conquering TV and film, the Emmy-winning \u201cSh\u014dgun\u201d star first got her start in show business as a member of the J-pop band Faky. Now, Sawai is going back to her musical roots in the role of Yoko Ono in Sam Mendes\u2019 forthcoming \u201cBeatles\u201d biopics. \u201cIt was my dream to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Anna-Sawai-on-Playing-Yoko-Ono-in-\u2018The-Beatles-Movies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291584,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291582\/revisions\/2291584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}