Marisa Abela talks taking up the position of Amy Winehouse
Marisa Abela has spoken to NME about taking up the position of Amy Winehouse within the upcoming biopic Again To Black, and revealed what she discovered from her time embodying the long-lasting singer. Watch our interview above.
The actor – who can be famed for her roles in Business, COBRA and Rogue Agent – caught up with NME on the pink carpet of the 2024 BRIT Awards, shortly earlier than presenting Carry Me The Horizon with the award for Greatest Rock/Different Act alongside Luke Evans.
Throughout the interview, Abela make clear her main position within the Sam Taylor-Johnson-directed movie and defined what it was prefer to seize Winehouse’s essence within the new biopic.
“It was quite a bit! It was wonderful, it was an enormous activity and it took a very long time,” she stated. “We’ve been dwelling with this movie for over a 12 months now and I had 4 months to actually get into preparation mode.”
She added: “It was hardcore, but it surely was nice.”
Abela additionally shared what she discovered from the undertaking – which follows Winehouse’s rise to fame, her music profession and private life – saying that it was the singer’s values that will keep together with her going ahead.
“There are such a lot of [stories that stuck with me], but it surely’s extra simply her essence. I believe that may stick with me perpetually now,” she defined, additionally happening to call ‘Stronger Than Me’ as her favorite of the late artist’s songs.
Abela went on to explain the monitor ‘Love Is A Shedding Sport’ as “a bit of poetry and writing that already does stand the check of time, and can perpetually”.
“If I’ve discovered something from Amy it’s to be fearless,” she continued. “It’s an unbelievable lesson to have the ability to get so near.”
Alongside Abela, Again To Black additionally stars Jack O’Connell as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan as her father Mitch, Juliet Cowan as her mom Janis, and Lesley Manville as her grandmother Cynthia. Will probably be in cinemas from April 12.
Final month, the movie’s director revealed that Abela carried out all of the songs within the film herself, having began voice classes for the half.
“After we first talked about it, my first query to her was, ‘Are you able to sing?’ And she or he stated, ‘I can’t,’” he advised Empire (through MusicNews). “I used to be considering, perhaps we’ll use Amy’s voice all through, and we’ll do it that manner. She then went off after that audition – no matter whether or not she knew she’d acquired the half – and began coaching her voice.”
The actor additionally mirrored on her weight reduction for the position, saying: “I nearly see my physique as a real instrument that I’m coaching for a job. I must work at it in the identical manner that I’m practising guitar.”
She added: “If I used to be practising for the final 4 weeks and I nonetheless couldn’t play a tune, I’d be scared. It’s separating my emotions round weight reduction, which I believe for me, in the long term, shall be actually optimistic.”