Amy Winehouse’s lyrics and music had been the “guiding star” for director Sam Taylor-Johnson in bringing the late singer’s story to the display screen in Again To Black.
The biographical function movie follows Winehouse’s rise to fame and portrays her relationships along with her household and former husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
It comes practically 13 years after the six-time Grammy Award winner died from alcohol poisoning, aged 27. Thought-about one of the vital proficient singers of her era, her premature demise shook the music world.
Telling the story from Winehouse’s viewpoint was important to Taylor-Johnson.
“I simply needed it to be in her perspective to sort of give her her company again as a result of I felt prefer it had been sort of taken away and he or she’d simply turn out to be a sufferer of her tragedy,” she mentioned on the movie’s world premiere in London on Monday.
“I felt like doing it by means of her phrases, her music, sort of like introduced the music again to life and celebrated her once more, and that felt so necessary. It felt like she deserved that.”
British actress Marisa Abela performs Winehouse, a job she discovered each daunting and a dream.
“You aren’t getting elements like Amy day by day. And that is not as a result of she’s Amy Winehouse however it’s as a result of she was all the things in a single.”
“She was sensible and humorous and daring and courageous, but additionally extremely susceptible and emotional and that is sort of what I needed to convey. I needed to…remind folks of the vulnerability of Amy, the lady behind the music.”
Abela, 27, who performs the Rehab singer’s hit songs within the movie mentioned she took every day singing classes for 4 months and studied Winehouse’s lyrics in preparation for the position.
Again To Black has been authorized by the Amy Winehouse Property and Taylor-Johnson additionally met with Winehouse’s mother and father.
“I did not want anyone’s approval. And that is necessary for me to say as a result of it is necessary additionally to declare I made the precise movie I needed to make. I had all music approvals. However I needed to fulfill with the household out of respect for the truth that I used to be making a movie about their daughter, and it felt incorrect to not meet with them. And the truth that they’ve authorized this since seeing it, is actually good,” Taylor-Johnson mentioned.
“I might hope that Amy would really feel proud that her music has stood such a giant take a look at of time, and that we’re right here to have a good time her once more,” she added.
Again To Black opens in Singapore on Apr 11.