'The Beatles: Eight Days a Week' Filmmakers on Discovering Sigourney Weaver in Old Footage

Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” is based on the early part of the Fab Four’s career (1962-1966), when they first captured the world’s attention.

And along with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, it also features a now-familiar face — Sigourney Weaver.

At TheWrap’s Screening Series Thursday night, moderator Steve Pond asked the filmmakers how they spotted the “Alien” actress — who was then just a young Beatles fan — in the crowd at a Hollywood Bowl concert in 1964 or ’65.

The film’s editor Paul Crowder explained — and the story is even more bizarre than you’d imagine.

“We were going through the footage and there is a big party and Groucho Marx gets out of the car and they’re interviewing him and ask him if he’s coming to see the Beatles — Marx is like ‘nah, I’m here to drink,'” Crowder said. “So the cameraman pans around and there were two girls sitting in the car, and I’m like ‘God, that looks like Sigourney Weaver over there.

Source: Umberto Gonzalez/thewrap.com

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