Ed Sheeran plays himself, the global superstar that he is, in the new movie Yesterday.

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He wasn’t the first superstar asked, though.

Director Danny Boyle says they originally asked Chris Martin from Coldplay.

Danny told Billboard Ed never let that go:

“He teased us rotten because he found out we’d asked Chris Martin first, so he never let us forget that”

The movie follows a guy who wakes up one day as the only person in the world that knows the Beatles, so he pretends to have written their music as his own and becomes a sensation.

Yesterday is in theatres June 28th.

 

 

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