Mick Jagger doesn’t want anybody famous to play him in a biopic
The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has ruled out any A-listers bringing his story to the big screen.
While no biopic on The Stones has been given the green light, in recent years, films about rock icons have flooded the box office, and it’s hard to imagine that they won’t also get the movie treatment in the future.
Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson, and Joseph Quinn are currently filming Sam Mendes’ set of biopics on The Beatles. Meanwhile, last year saw Timothée Chalamet become Bob Dylan for A Complete Unknown and Jeremy Allen White transform into Bruce Springsteen for Deliver Me From Nowhere.
However, if Jagger’s life were to be told on screen, he wouldn’t want somebody who is already familiar to the masses to be tasked with the job.
Speaking to E Talk, he shared, “I have thought about it, a lot, and the problem with casting is that I want the beginning of getting famous in there. I don’t wanna ignore that part.”
Jagger continued, “I was only 19, 20, and what happens is, they always cast someone (who is) 32 playing 19. I don’t want that, I want them to be in their 20s. At least in their 20s.”
He also has no possible names in mind, which is exactly the point, adding, “It would be a pretty unknown actor, it wouldn’t be a big star actor, on the cusp of being famous. They’d have to have that energy and sort of innocence as well of the world of showbusiness of what’s going to happen to you and the madness and fun of it all.”
This isn’t the first time that Jagger has discussed an upcoming biopic on the legendary rock ‘n’ roll band, which he recently admitted “interests me”.
Speaking to GQ, Jagger shared, “Yeah, it interests me. I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it. There’s lots of ways of doing biopics.”
He elaborated, “So most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff. Take the Bob Dylan movie. You do the moment when Bob went electric. You’d have to think, what are you going to zero in on? And where’s your two years of interest?”
Due to the vast career of The Stones, which spans more than 60 years, Jagger said he was unsure which era of the band would translate best to the screen, admitting, “I don’t know which section, because it’s a long period.”
However, his latest remarks suggest he has since made up his mind and wants to tell the rollercoaster ride of their early years.
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