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Amy Winehouse's best friend believes the late singer would be "fuming" over new biopic 'Back To Black'. Tyler James has hit out at director Sam Taylor-Johnson's "dreadful" new movie, insisting it resembled a "fantasy" and his friend "deserved a lot better" because the biopic didn't show the Amy he knew and loved. He told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “I wish Amy could have seen it. She’d be fuming. Amy deserved a lot better. She was a superstar. “I was not expecting it to be realistic or completely accurate. But it was worse than I thought it would be. It was dreadful and does not do her justi...
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Chaka Khan saw a lot of her younger self in Amy Winehouse. The 71-year-old funk singer met the late Amy - who died in 2011 at the age of just 27 following years of addiction struggles - and recalled that the 'Back to Black' legend "stole her heart" and was reminded of herself in her younger years. She told The Saturday Times: "I met her once in Jamaica and she stole my heart. Amy came right over to me and sat on my lap. I said, ‘This girl reminds me of me when I was in my early twenties.’ She was a little bit inebriated, having a good time, and we just opened up. She told me that I had a great...
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Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has called watching new biopic 'Black To Black' a "therapeutic" experience. The tragic singer's story is brought to life in a new film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson which stars Marisa Abela as Amy - who died in 2011 aged 27 - and Jack O'Connell as Blake, who was married to the singer for two years between 2007 and 2009. Now Blake has admitted he enjoyed reliving the former couple's troubled relationship on the big screen. During an appearance on 'Good Morning Britain', Blake said: "It's a surreal experience watching a film about somebody you reco...
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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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Jack O'Connell has insisted 'Back to Black' is a "celebration" of Amy Winehouse. The 33-year-old star plays the late singer's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil in director Sam Taylor-Johnson's upcoming biopic and while the project has faced criticism for being "tasteless" and coming just 13 years after the 'Rehab' hitmaker's death at the age of 27, the actor thinks the backlash is unfair. He told Sunday Times Culture magazine: “What is the acceptable timescale of that? Put it like this: if we were trying to portray her in any form of negative light, then that might be a valid point and I can unde...
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Lily Allen’s mum feared her daughter was headed for the same fate as Amy Winehouse. The singer, 38, who is now settled with her ‘Stranger Things’ actor husband David Harbour, 48, and her two children, went through a wild period when she hit fame as a singer, and her mother Alison Owen says she saw Lily and Amy go through disturbingly similar struggles when they were first thrust into the public eye. Alison, 63, who is a producer on the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’, told The Times she though being in the spotlight “would destroy my daughter” and lead her down the same grim path...
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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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