I was keen to get into feature films and had been kicking a few ideas around. This story, I decided, was the one I wanted to tell.
Over the years, I think a lot of people had tracked her down in search of Beatles gossip, but I told her that wasn't what I was looking for.
I spent 10 days with them recording interviews which became the basis for the screenplay. Astrid Kirchherr: a stylish outsider who saw beauty in the Beatles.
Ian Hart came on board early and would come in to read John Lennon's lines opposite potential Stuarts and Astrids.
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