Yesterday (III) (2019)

Himesh Patel: Jack Malik

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• Ellie Appleton : Miracles happen all the time!

  Jack Malik : Like what?

  Ellie Appleton : Benedict Cumberbatch becoming a sex symbol!

• Jack Malik : It's times like this I wish I hadn't given up smoking. I could murder for a cigarette.

  Rocky : Yeah. What's a cigarette?

• John Lennon : You need serious psychiatric help.

  Jack Malik : Not anymore.

• Jack Malik : [referring to his friends not knowing The Beatles]  Wow, this is the most complicated joke I've ever heard.

  Nick : Nice song, though.

  Jack Malik : It's not a nice song.

  Nick : No, it is, mate. Don't do yourself down just because you look like a cartoon character. It's a very nice song.

  Jack Malik : It's not a very nice song, Nick. It's one of the greatest songs ever written.

  Carol : Well, it's not Coldplay. It's not Fix You.

  Jack Malik : It's not bloody Fix You, Carol, it's a great, great work of art.

  Carol : Wow, somebody's suddenly got very cocky.

• Jack Malik : This is my last gig. If it hasn't happened by now... it'll take a miracle.

• Jack Malik : [after Ed's asked Jack to be his opening act]  Um, how long do you need?

  Ed Sheeran : About thirty minutes maximum. Any more than that, people start getting a bit restless. You know, "Bring on the ginger geezer."

• [addressing the Wembley Stadium crowd; referring to the giant screen on the stadium showing Ellie] 

  Jack Malik : This is Ellie. And when I had no fans, Ellie was my only fan. The only person in the world who believed in me. And that's why, tonight, I asked Ed if I could come on and play, because I want to tell her, and you, what I've done. Darn it, Ellie, I've been untrue. All the songs I've sung tonight were really written and performed by four men called John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles. They were the real geniuses. Me, I'm just a sort of go-between to, well, get their astonishing stuff into the world. And, uh, I passed their amazing work off as my own, so I could look like I was amazing too.

  [the crowd starts jeering] 

  Jack Malik : I want you all to know that I'm not going to take any money for this work that isn't mine. So you can have all the songs for free. Rocky, do it.

  Rocky : Right. Here goes.

  [he upload the songs for free to the internet] 

  Jack Malik : They're being released, for free, online now. And I'd love to not take any more praise for it. So, um, I'm so sorry.

• Ellie Appleton : How did I get in the wrong column? How did I get in the "friend, manager, roadie" column, inst...... instead of the "And I Love Her" column?

  Jack Malik : Oh, god. There's definitely columns?

  Ellie Appleton : Well, a girl can certainly tell the difference.

• Debra Hammer : What does Liverpool have that L.A. doesn't?

  Jack Malik : Mo Salah, Cilla Black, mushy peas, rain.

• Jack Malik : Look, I can't be the star that we thought I could be at fourteen, on that day in the school hall when I sang a pretty cool cover of Wonderwall, and you were there, backstage.

  Ellie Appleton : I'm not hearing a word.

  Jack Malik : Okay, but look, this was my last gig. And I'm so happy you were there. This is the end of our long and winding road.

• Jack Malik : Do you reckon you could, like, make 'em look, you know, better than before? It's just, I'm hoping to relaunch my music thing.

  Marcus The Dentist : I'm a dentist, Jack, not a magician. Let's try the red. Your dad was my first-ever patient. I only survived because of people like him. That's right. I only coped - clamp - with a little help from my friends.

• Jack Malik : A great guitar requires a great song.

  [singing] 

  Jack Malik : Yesterday, All my troubles seemed so far away, Now it seems as though they're here to stay, Oh, I believe in yesterday...

• Ed Sheeran : I do have a suggestion though. Um, about the song. The title, Hey Jude. Jude is just, it's a bit old fashioned. That was the kid's name, right?

  Jack Malik : What kid?

  Ed Sheeran : That the song's about.

  Jack Malik : Oh, the kid, the kid, the kid. Yes, the sad kid.

  Ed Sheeran : Now, let me just give you this advice, right? Song title. I won't charge you a penny for it as well. Hey Dude.

• Jack Malik : I didn't ask to be The Beatles, you know, I just wanted once to have a standing ovation not given by people who were already standing at the bar.

  Ellie Appleton : Be the what?

• Debra Hammer : You're out of shape.

  Jack Malik : Yes.

  Debra Hammer : You're skinny, yet, somehow, round.

• Ellie Appleton : Oh, my God, you just - you touched my bottom. You've never done that before.

  Jack Malik : Well, I imagine we're gonna have to do a lot of things we've never done before.

• Ellie Appleton : [after Jack sings Yesterday to Ellie and his friends]  What the hell was that?

  Jack Malik : Yesterday.

  Carol : That was one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

  Rocky : Yeah. I mean, it's a bit-bit sloppy, but it's sweet.

  Ellie Appleton : When did you write that?

  Jack Malik : I didn't write it. Paul McCartney wrote it, The Beatles.

  Carol : Who?

  Jack Malik : The Beatles.

  Carol : The what?

  Jack Malik : John, Paul, George and Ringo, The Beatles.

  Rocky : Which beetles is this? The insect beetles or the car Beetles?

  Jack Malik : The pop group Beatles.

• Jack Malik : Thanks for taking such good care of me.

  Ellie Appleton : You're welcome. I'll come back later.

  Jack Malik : Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?

  Ellie Appleton : I don't know. I'll think about it. Why 64?

  Jack Malik : What do you mean?

  Ellie Appleton : It's just - oh, forget it.

• Jed Malik : He's got some new songs. What's this one called?

  Sheila Malik : "Leave It Be."

  Jack Malik : "Let It Be."

  Terry : Oh, excellent. Well, rock on, Jack.

  Jack Malik : Well, it's not very rocky, but...

  [singing] 

  Jack Malik : When I find myself in times of trouble...

• Debra Hammer : The first one...

  Jack Malik : "Here Comes the Sun."

  Debra Hammer : Yeah, yeah. That's amazing. Whoo! And the second one...

  Rocky : My personal favorite.

  Jack Malik : "The Summer Song."

  Debra Hammer : "The Summer Song." That is - it's simple, without being charming. I'm struggling to find the words. I hated it, but, I wasn't interested in it enough to listen to it again to find out why.

  Rocky : Yeah, bin it. Yeah. Reject.

  Debra Hammer : Thank you, Rocky.

• Rocky : Home, sweet home.

  Jack Malik : Rocky, you're not from Liverpool, mate.

  Rocky : Nope. Never been here before.

• Ed Sheeran : I'm sorry to barge in like this.

  Jack Malik : No, no, uh, major pop stars are always dropping around, you know? Lady Gaga won't leave us alone.

  Ed Sheeran : [laughs]  You're funny.

  Jack Malik : Ah! Funny looking at least.

• Jack Malik : So how long you been back in Suffolk?

  Rocky : Well, I'm trying to live outside the traditional concept of time. So, could be weeks, could me months, could be a year and a half, no idea.

• Jack Malik : Accept my gratitude, Latitude.

• Jack Malik : [singing]  Gotta follow this winding road, I gotta follow, Wherever it goes, I guess I'll always carry this load, That's my fate, I rock this road

• Jack Malik : Do you genuinely not know who The Beatles are?

  Ellie Appleton : Genuinely.

  Jack Malik : Okay. Then I'm in a really, really, really complicated situation. See you soon. Nice pajamas.

• Jack Malik : I don't know what you guys are playing at, but this is so weird, a-and quite unfair, in light of me having lost two teeth, looking like a sort of reverse rabbit.

• Ipswich TV Host : And here's a lovely little story. Jack, you work in the wholesale warehouse in Lowestoft. And we hear members of the retail trade have been getting a free CD along with their jumbo boxes of Nescafé and washing powder.

  Jack Malik : That's right.

  Ipswich TV Host : But you're gonna sing us a new song now. So, here's Jack Malik, the singing wholesaler, "In My Life."

  Jack Malik : [singing]  But of all these friends and lovers, There is no one, Compares with you, And these memories lose their meaning, When I think of love as something new, Though I know I'll never lose affection, For people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them, In my life, I love you more.

  Ipswich TV Host : Beautiful. No mention of, uh, jumbo-sized Fairy liquid, but nice work.

• Ellie Appleton : Why would anyone ever leave Suffolk before the day they die?

  [partygoers cheer] 

  Ellie Appleton : Right, but if you must go to Los Angeles and hang out with perverts and drug addicts...

  Jack Malik : I must.

  Ellie Appleton : Then we wish you good luck and success. Or, even better, failure and a swift return.

• Jack Malik : Stop, stop! Something's missing. It's the guitar, it has to gently weep more.

• Jack Malik : Do I have to have an image?

  Debra Hammer : Well, if you don't have an image, then the lack of image becomes an image.

• Jack Malik : I need to go to Liverpool as soon as possible. I think it could be inspiring.

  Leo (Russian Stranger) : Do you want me to tell you the name of 50 places on Earth more inspiring than Liverpool? Starting with Shitsville, USA.

• Debra Hammer : Jack, this is Hilary. She's going to be working with you on your image.

  Jack Malik : Do I have to have an image?

  Debra Hammer : Well, if you don't have an image, then the lack of image becomes an image.

  Hilary : The music sounds so joyful. It would be a shame to let it down by you being so. . . off-putting.

  Jack Malik : I can see how you two might be friends.

• Head of Marketing : So, now upon us falls - the mighty task of packaging everything together into one, single, irresistible album. Now, Jack came up with some title suggestions himself and, uh, we worked on some of those. You know, I especially got a kick out of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Yeah, that's - It's okay to laugh, 'cause it's funny. It is. It's, uh, a lot of words, Jack. But ultimately, in the end, we just felt it was, uh, uh, too confusing, right? Too confusing. And, uh, "The White Album" has some diversity issues.

  Jack Malik : How?

  Head of Marketing : That's a lot of white, Jack. And I know you were pretty enthusiastic about "Abbey Road." I gotta say, it didn't have a lot going for it - if I can put it to you like that. Uh, it's just a road, with a bunch of people driving down the wrong side of the street.

  Jack Malik : That's not exactly what I meant.

  Head of Marketing : But we've been developing some ideas of our own, now. You know, we weren't just sitting around. We focused on the one thing that makes this man here unlike anyone else in the entire world of music today. No collaborators, no cowriters, no samples, no steals, hmm? No "featuring Cardi B," no "featuring Bieber." Just the simple, pure genius of: "One Man Only".