During her appearance on the program The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Sigourney Weaver made it clear that she has always been a big fan of The Beatles.
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While answering the host’s traditional questionnaire, the actress mentioned the band several times and revealed that she once wrote a long letter to John Lennon.
“I wrote a letter of several pages on lilac paper with purple ink,” Weaver said. “It was about five pages, written on both sides. I folded the letter, put it in an envelope, and dropped it off at a restaurant I’d heard he used to go to.”
When Colbert asked what she had written, the star of the new film “Avatar: Fire and Ash” said she didn’t remember and admitted that she hoped Lennon had never read the letter.
“I hope they threw it away,” she said.
Weaver, 76, said she was very young when she became a fan of the British band and that the first concert of her life was actually by The Beatles; according to the actress, she was still a teenager when she watched Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Lennon perform at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964.
The concert in question was the subject of the documentary “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” by Ron Howard, as Weaver noted, and Colbert then showed a photo of the smiling actress trying to hear the band amid the deafening screams of fans.
“There were girls screaming around me,” she said about the photo. “You couldn’t hear anything at all.”
“The Hollywood Bowl went through all its archives and suddenly, about 10 years ago, I got an email saying, ‘We think this photo is of you.’ And there I was.”
“My hair was huge because I had rolled it in beer cans all day, straightened it, and I was wearing my only nice dress.”
Weaver also explained why Lennon was her favorite: “I read in a fan magazine that he worked at the airport for VIPs,” she said. “He would prepare a tray of sandwiches and just before handing them out, he’d put each one inside his shoe, then reassemble them and put them back on the tray. I thought that was really cool.”
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