Amy Winehouse’s father defends new biopic following casting backlash 

Mitch Winehouse, the daddy of Amy Winehouse, has defended the upcoming biopic about his daughter’s life.

The casting of Marisa Abela, who will play Winehouse in Again To Black, has been criticised by some followers who declare the actor seems nothing just like the late singer.

Nevertheless, Mitch has publicly supported the casting, telling US web site TMZ: “Marisa’s a fantastic alternative for the function, even when she doesn’t look precisely like Amy.”

In keeping with the publication, Mitch defended the movie by suggesting there’s an excessive amount of emphasis on seems in Hollywood movies, with there being loads of examples of actors wanting nothing just like the real-life characters they’re taking part in.

He additionally famous that Eddie Marsan, who will play Amy’s father within the movie, additionally shares no resemblance to himself.

The movie may even star Skins actor Jack O’Connell as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, whom she divorced two years previous to hher demise in July 2011. In the meantime, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris star Lesley Manville will play the singer’s maternal grandmother.

In keeping with a press launch, Again To Black will “deal with Amy’s extraordinary genius, creativity and honesty that infused every little thing she did… Again To Black crashes by way of the wanting glass of superstar to look at this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy noticed, to really feel what she felt.”

When set pictures of Abela in character as Winehouse had been launched on-line, many took to social media to criticise the casting resolution.

“They actually may have picked another particular person on the planet, put a beehive on them, and they’d look extra like Amy Winehouse than the gal forged in that movie does,” one particular person tweeted.

One other wrote: “It took a second for me to understand that i used to be pictures from the upcoming amy winehouse movie, so extremely disappointing.”