THE LATE Amy Winehouse left behind a critically-acclaimed music catalog after she died.
The GRAMMY Award winner’s life serves as the story for her own big-screen biopic titled Back to Black.
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Who is playing Amy Winehouse in Back to Black?
In Back to Black, Amy Winehouse is played by Marisa Abela.
Audiences are familiar with Marisa through her roles in HBO’s Industry and the Sky One drama show COBRA.
Regarding her turn as Amy, Marisa shared with Soho House: “I grew up hearing her music. I was really the perfect age, definitely.
“I was very young when the songs came out, so I don’t think I realized then how much of an amazing poet she was.”
Marisa and the rest of the film’s cast and crew headed over to London to begin filming on January 16, 2023.
Prior to Back to Black’s cast announcement, Lady Gaga was rumored to be considered for the role of Amy before it went to Marisa.
Sam Taylor-Johnson is at the director’s chair for the biopic.
While teasing Amy’s fans with what’s to come with the project, Sam said in a statement: “My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden.
“A few years later Amy wrote her searingly honest songs whilst living in Camden. Like with me, it became part of her DNA.
“I first saw her perform at a talent show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho and it was immediately obvious she wasn’t just ‘talent’… she was genius.”
The director added: “As a filmmaker you can’t really ask for more.
“I feel excited and humbled to have this opportunity to realize Amy’s beautifully unique and tragic story to cinema accompanied by the most important part of her legacy — her music.
“I will create a movie that we will all love and cherish forever, just like we do Amy.”
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Who plays Amy’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil?
Alongside Marisa as Amy Winehouse is Jack O’Connell as the singer’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
Amy and Blake tied the knot in 2007 and were divorced by July 2009.
Judging by the pictures captured during the movie’s principal photography, it appears Blake’s arrest in June 2007 will be featured in a scene for Back to Black.
At some point in 2005, he met the not-yet-known Amy in a London pub.
When did Amy release her Back to Black album?
On October 27, 2006, Winehouse’s second and last studio album Back to Black was made available to listeners everywhere.
The record consisted of the late musician’s most memorable singles Rehab, You Know I’m No Good, Love Is a Losing Game, and Tears Dry on Their Own.
Back to Black bagged Winehouse five GRAMMY Awards at the 2008 ceremony.
Since its release, Amy’s last effort has been verified 14 times platinum in her native UK and two times platinum in the US.