Sigourney Weaver’s Beatles Memories Steal the Show on Stephen Colbert

When Sigourney Weaver stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new film Avatar: Fire and Ash, the conversation took a charming turn. Instead of movie talk, the legendary actress surprised everyone by opening up about her lifelong love for The Beatles.

What began as light late-night banter quickly turned into a heartfelt walk through Weaver’s teenage memories. At 76, the actress spoke with the same excitement she felt as a young fan — especially when talking about John Lennon.

Weaver revealed that her Beatles obsession began early. When she was about 12 years old, she attended one of the band’s U.S. concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Like many fans in the 1960s, she could barely hear the music over the screaming crowd.

“We couldn’t hear them at all,” she said, laughing.

That night later became part of music history. A young Weaver can be spotted in The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, the documentary directed by Ron Howard.

Weaver even remembered what she wore. She joked that her hair was “huge” because she curled it with beer cans and straightened it by hand. She added that she was sitting “at the very back” of the venue.

But the most magical moment came after the concert.

As Weaver and her friend were walking home, they saw the Beatles’ limousine drive by. The car passed close enough for Lennon and Paul McCartney to wave at them.

The experience was so overwhelming that Weaver said it left her emotionally stunned for an entire day.

“We were so excited,” she recalled. “I think we both went home and just lay on our backs staring at the ceiling for 24 hours.”

Later in the interview, Weaver shared another deeply personal Beatles story. She admitted she once wrote a long, emotional letter to Lennon.

She said she used lavender stationery and purple ink and filled five pages front and back, beginning with “Dear John….” Too shy to mail it, she dropped the letter off at a restaurant she had heard Lennon visited.

Looking back, she laughed and said she hoped the letter never reached him. “I hope they threw it away,” she joked.

Weaver also explained why Lennon stood out to her most. She remembered reading a fan magazine story claiming that he once played pranks on VIPs by putting his shoe into sandwich platters at an airport job.

“I thought that was so cool,” she said.

That playful, rebellious image sealed her teenage crush — and decades later, the admiration is still there.

Weaver is best known for groundbreaking roles in films like Alien, Ghostbusters, Gorillas in the Mist, and the Avatar series, where she helped redefine strong female characters in blockbuster cinema.

But on Colbert’s stage, she wasn’t a Hollywood icon or award-winning actress. She was simply a teenage fan again — remembering the band that shaped her youth and proving that even legends never outgrow the music they love.