Marisa Abela has spoken out about her bodily and inventive preparation for her efficiency as Amy Winehouse within the forthcoming biopic on the singer’s life.
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Again To Black, which is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and commenced filming final week, stars Business‘s Marisa Abela because the late star.
Talking on the Earlier than The Lights podcast, Abela stated: “I went to an all-girls faculty in Brighton and it was brutal… this actually poisonous atmosphere, and it undoubtedly seeped into how I felt about myself.
“I used to be anticipating [training for the role] being fairly troublesome by way of possibly considering, ‘That is how I ought to look once I’m at my skinniest’.”
The actress stated her coaching – together with guitar classes, an train regime, and two vocal coaches – turned out to be “the other”, including: “I virtually see my physique as a real instrument that I’m coaching for a job. I must work at it in the identical means that I’m training guitar. If I used to be training for the final 4 weeks and I nonetheless couldn’t play a track, I’d be scared.
“It’s separating my emotions round weight reduction, which I feel for me, in the long term, will likely be actually constructive.”
Again To Black is ready to “deal with Amy’s extraordinary genius, creativity and honesty that infused the whole lot she did. A journey that took her from the craziness and color of 90’s Camden Excessive Avenue to international adoration – and again once more, Again To Black crashes by the trying glass of superstar to look at this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy noticed, to really feel what she felt.”
The movie may even star Jack O’Connell as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Lesley Manville as her maternal grandmother, and Blissful-Go-Fortunate‘s Eddie Marsan as Mitch Winehouse, the singer’s father. Matt Greenhalgh has written the script for the movie, with Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Nicky Kentish-Barnes performing as producers.
Filming footage and photographs has emerged up to now week, together with Abela, O’Connell and Marsan in character.
Winehouse’s life was the topic of 2015 Asif Kapadia documentary Amy, a movie Mitch Winehouse was important of, in addition to 2021 BBC movie Reclaiming Amy, which the singer’s father appeared in.