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Marisa Abela felt it was essential for women to have the main roles behind the camera on 'Back to Black'. The 27-year-old star plays the tragic singer Amy Winehouse in Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic and thinks that the female involvement was important for the sake of a balanced depiction of the 'Love Is a Losing Game' artist. Marisa told IndieWire: "I think that it was very helpful that almost every single head of department on our film is a woman. You have a female director, a female DoP, female costume, female hair and makeup, female set designers. "It was crazy. And what that meant was I didn'...
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Sam Taylor-Johnson wanted to reclaim "agency" for Amy Winehouse in the biopic 'Back to Black'. The 57-year-old director has helmed the film about the life of the tragic singer and wanted to place Amy's accomplishments – rather than her troubled life and untimely death aged 27 in 2011 – at the centre of the picture. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Sam said: "Everything that she had achieved was being eclipsed by the tragedy of how her life ended. "In listening to her music, it was full of paradox and nuance in a way that seemed to have been neglected. I wanted to take her to a place where s...
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Marisa Abela had to do "justice" to Amy Winehouse in 'Back to Black'. The 27-year-old star plays the late singer in Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic and said that respect for the 'Tears Dry on Their Own' artist was at the heart of her performance – particularly when she got to met Winehouse's parents Mitch and Janis on set. Speaking at the movie's world premiere in London on Monday (08.04.24), Marisa said: "Once I was on set I was really trying to stay focused on the job at hand because at the end of the day the most important thing is that we try and do justice to Amy in this film. "It requires a ...
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Jack O'Connell admires the individuality of Amy Winehouse. The 33-year-old actor stars opposite Marisa Abela in the biopic 'Back to Black' as Amy's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil and respects the way that the 'Rehab' hitmaker was able to remain authentic in the music industry during her tragically brief career. Jack said at the picture's world premiere in London on Monday (08.04.24): "She didn't waver, she didn't let herself get parcelled and packaged and marketed. She stayed true to herself and as a young twenty something to do that and not give in, I just have a tremendous amount of respect ...
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Sam Taylor-Johnson didn't want to cast an "impersonator" as Amy Winehouse in 'Back to Black'. The 57-year-old filmmaker has helmed the new biopic about the late singer and opted to cast Marisa Abela in the lead role as she didn't try to imitate Amy's appearance in her audition. Sam told the BBC: "There were many brilliant impersonators and people that looked like her or sounded like her. But Marisa came in as herself, she was the only one in the audition process who didn't try to look like her in any way, earrings, eyeliner or anything." The 'Nowhere Boy' director revealed that she wanted to m...
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Marisa Abela says that becoming "smaller and frailer" was useful for her portrayal of Amy Winehouse in the biopic 'Back to Black'. The 27-year-old star went to great lengths to recreate the late singer's slender frame and thinks it helped in her depiction of the 'Tears Dry on Their Own' hitmaker, even though it took a tough physical toll. Speaking to Harper's Bazaar UK, Marisa said: "I had help to do it safely; I consulted a dietician and was being monitored. Feeling frailer and smaller helped – I hadn't understood, before, how much that affects your tempo. "During her 'Frank' era (when her fi...
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Mark Ronson has declared the Amy Winehouse biopic 'Back to Black' has "nailed" the late singer's sense of hunour. The produced worked with Winehouse - who died in 2011 aged 27 - on her huge 2006 album 'Back To Black' and he's now weighed in on the film based on her life story - admitting he hasn't seen it but he read the script and thinks the writers have got it spot on. Speaking to 'Entertainment Tonight' on the red carpet at the 96th Academy Awards, Ronson said: "I haven't seen the film [but] I read the script. I love the script and the way that it really got ... Amy was so funny and they re...
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Mark Ronson says the script for the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic reminded him of his late friend and collaborator's "whip-smart razor sense of humour". The 'Valerie' hitmaker has defended director Sam Taylor-Johnson's new movie, 'Back to Black', about the late music icon - who died aged 27 in 2011 from alcohol poisoning - which stars Marisa Abela, 27, as Amy. Speaking at the Critics Choice Awards in Santa Barbara at the weekend, the 48-year-old studio wizard said: “The only thing I know about the film is I know Sam [Taylor-Johnson] quite well, and I read the script and I feel what it did real...
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Mitch Winehouse thinks Marisa Abela is a "great choice" to play his daughter in a new biopic. The 26-year-old actress has been cast as Amy Winehouse in 'Back to Black', and Mitch believes she's the perfect candidate for the role, insisting it doesn't matter that they "don't look exactly alike". Mitch, 72, told TMZ: "Marisa is Marisa and Amy is Amy ... so it's no big deal if they aren't mirror images. Marisa is a great choice for the role." Eddie Marsan is playing the part of Mitch in the upcoming film, and the former taxi driver insists he's not worried that he and Eddie don't look alike, eith...
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Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville have been cast in the Amy Winehouse biopic 'Back to Black'. The trio have boarded the new movie that will star Marisa Abela as the tragic Grammy-winning singer. The film is being directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who was close friends with the music star before she passed away at the age of 27 in 2011. O'Connell will play the role of Blake Fielder-Civil, who married Amy in 2007 but divorced the star prior to her passing after a turbulent relationship filled with booze and drugs. Marsan will star as Winehouse's father Mitch and Manville is to portr...
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