Sarah Lancashire's "crowdpleasing" British movie gets new UK streaming home
Sarah Lancashire's British movie Yesterday has found a new streaming home in the UK.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the 2019 film stars former EastEnders actor Himesh Patel as singer-songwriter Jack Malik, who wakes up in a world in which The Beatles never existed after he's involved in a bus accident during a freak worldwide power outage.
Jack struggles with the moral dilemma of becoming famous from performing Beatles songs as his own, with only other people who remember The Fab Four being Liz (Lancashire) and Leo (Justin Edwards).
Fans in the UK who want to revisit Yesterday or watch it for the for the first time can now stream the movie on BBC iPlayer.
Digital Spy gave Yesterday four stars, with our review describing it as "crowdpleasing" and "heartwarming".
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As well as Patel, Lancashire and Edwards, Yesterday stars Lily James and Joel Fry, with cameos from the likes of James Corden and Ed Sheeran.
Director Danny Boyle previously revealed that Sheeran wasn't the first choice for the movie, with the filmmaker originally wanting to cast Coldplay's Chris Martin.
"In the first script, it was written as Chris Martin, from Coldplay," the director told Entertainment Weekly after the film's release.
"[Screenwriter] Richard Curtis knew Chris because they'd done something for Red Nose Day for Comic Relief, but he also knew Ed because they live near each other in Suffolk."
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He continued: "We had a very fun moment with Ed where we said, 'You'd be so good for this, you're our first choice. We can't think of anyone [else],' and he goes, 'Hang on, you've already asked Chris Martin.'
"He's very funny. He doesn't mind having fun poked at him, which obviously the film does. But he comes with that as well. So he remorselessly teased us about being second choice to Chris Martin."
Yesterday is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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