Four taking root from such a young
age, the concept of his latest film,
Yesterday—which was written by rom-
com titan Richard Curtis—is most
likely one Danny himself finds hard to
fathom. Struggling singer-songwriter
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) awakes
from a cycling accident to find he
is the only person in the world who
remembers The Beatles. And once he
grows accustomed to this bizarre new
reality, he realises that means that
their entire back catalogue is now his
for the taking...“I’m not claiming this happens every
time, but sometimes you get a script
and you just go, ‘I’ll do it,’” Danny22 • JULY 2019
INTERVIEW: DANNY BOYLE
THERE’S NO OTHER ARTFORM, THERE’S
NOTHING ELSE IN LIFE, THAT ALLOWS YOU
TO STOP TIMEEwan Bremner, Ewan
McGregor and Robert Carlyle
in Trainspotting; (Right) Dev
Patel and Freida Pinto in
Slumdog MillionaireUNITED ARCHIVES GMBH / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO