The lifetime of Amy Winehouse is certain for the massive display screen this spring. Audiences received their first have a look at “Again to Black,” starring Marisa Abela, with the discharge of a brand new trailer Thursday. The clip reveals Abela as Winehouse in her signature beehive hairdo and heavy black eyeliner, commanding the stage …
The lifetime of Amy Winehouse is certain for the massive display screen this spring.
Audiences received their first have a look at “Again to Black,” starring Marisa Abela, with the discharge of a brand new trailer Thursday.
The clip reveals Abela as Winehouse in her signature beehive hairdo and heavy black eyeliner, commanding the stage at dirty nightclubs earlier than changing into a world famous person.
“I don’t write music to be well-known,” she proclaims at one level within the trailer. “I write songs as a result of I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t.”
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the biopic is billed as “a never-before-seen glimpse” at Winehouse’s rise to fame. The movie is produced in partnership with the six-time Grammy winner’s property.
“Advised from Amy’s perspective, the movie is an unapologetic have a look at the lady behind the phenomenon and the connection that impressed probably the most legendary albums of all time,” a synopsis for the film states.
The movie hits theaters Could 10 within the U.S.
Abela, a British native, is greatest identified to U.S. audiences for HBO’s “Business,” during which she portrays Yasmin Kara-Hanani. She additionally appeared alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in final summer season’s blockbuster, “Barbie.”
Taylor-Johnson, no stranger to rock ‘n’ roll biopics after 2009’s “Nowhere Boy,” stated Abela instantly “inhabited” Winehouse lengthy earlier than sporting the long-lasting beehive coiffure seen within the trailer.
Watch the trailer for “Again to Black” under.
“Marisa got here in as Marisa – completely no cat-eye make-up or something,” the filmmaker informed Empire in an interview printed Thursday. “She was very candy and really quiet. After which I turned on the digicam, and she or he appears to be like down the lens, and actually, all of us simply went, ‘What?!’”
She added: “We’d seen some sensible impersonations. However [Marisa] managed to only carry each fibre of her being in alignment with who Amy Winehouse was, and is to many individuals.”
A London native, Winehouse launched her debut album, “Frank,” in 2003. Her world breakthrough got here three years later, when she unveiled her second album, “Again to Black,” which featured the smash single “Rehab.”
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Winehouse’s musical achievements, nevertheless, have been quickly overshadowed by her experiences with drug and alcohol dependancy. She died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 on the age of 27.
As of Thursday afternoon, the “Again to Black” trailer had obtained a blended response on-line ― and lots of of these doubts could also be justified. Latest movie star biopics, together with 2018’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and 2022’s “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Someone,” have too typically failed to supply a satisfying degree of behind-the-scenes perception into their era-defining topics.
In her Empire interview, nevertheless, Taylor-Johnson stated her movie offers Winehouse’s “company again.”
“I feel it feels true to her — and that’s actually the purpose of creating the movie, to be true to her, to her music, and to her soul,” she stated.
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