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Sigourney Weaver Says She Once Wrote a Five-Page Letter to John Lennon

She disclosed the teenage fan tale on Colbert during promotion for Avatar: Fire & Ash.

Overview

  • Weaver recounted the story on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on January 3 during the show's questionnaire segment.
  • She said she wrote the letter on lavender stationery with purple ink, totaling about five pages front and back.
  • She recalled dropping the envelope at a restaurant she had heard Lennon visited and said she hopes it was thrown away.
  • Weaver described attending a Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl as a preteen, a moment later visible in Ron Howard’s documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.
  • She said Lennon became her favorite after reading a playful anecdote in a fan magazine about a prank involving sandwiches.