Marisa Abela has discussed the long preparation process to physically transform into Amy Winehouse at her 'most frail' while filming Back to Black.
Marisa Abela has discussed the long preparation process to physically transform into Amy Winehouse at her 'most frail' while filming Back to Black.
Marisa replied: 'We started filming at the very end of our movie, at the point where Amy is her most frail so that I had the preparation process so that I had time to get into that place physically. 'So the place we left Amy in our filming of it was at her most healthy which I am very grateful for because we left on a very joyful note, it was really fun playing those scenes. She was a young girl so full of life and talent.'Speaking about the audition process she said: 'It was weird actually, it wasn't one of those jobs where I was like I have to get this.
Marisa met Amy's family in the process of making the film and described what it was like to speak to them about their late daughter. She added: 'It is not the kind of part you want if you are not going to do a good job. I wanted to make sure I was perfect and I was best for the job. You cannot play an icon, you have to play a human being'
Earlier this month Marisa revealed the strict regime she followed to shrink to Amy's slender frame, telling Harper's Bazaar UK she 'feeling frailer' helped her with her characterisation. He wrote: 'This is a film that does not paint a nice or fair picture of her as a human, nor get across how special an artist she was. The final scene, in particular, with its completely and utterly baseless, sensationalist implications, made me physically gasp in horror.'
'An origin story for the beehive? Ugh. Check. Even the death of Winehouse's beloved grandmother, Cynthia – played with grace and wit by Lesley Manville, in by far the film's best performance – is merely a shot or two in yet another lazy montage.
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