Billie Piper says childhood buddy Amy Winehouse was bullied at college “as a result of she was at all times doing her personal factor”
Billie Piper has mirrored on her childhood friendship with Amy Winehouse, recalling how the singer was bullied as a result of “she was at all times doing her personal factor”.
Piper and Winehouse each attended the Sylvia Younger Theatre Faculty in London within the Nineteen Nineties, and have become associates throughout their time there. Now, in an interview on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast, the previous pop star and Physician Who actor has shared recollections of what Winehouse was like throughout that interval.
“She was at all times cheeky,” Piper mentioned. “She was at all times like that, you understand. She would do summary stuff, and I actually beloved it.”
“She might do every little thing. Tremendous intelligent, tremendous vivid, not like every other woman at that faculty.”
She went on to mirror on a few of the difficulties Winehouse confronted on the college: “She obtained bullied quite a bit at college as a result of she was doing her personal factor, and she or he favored to push buttons, and do bizarre stuff.”
“And I had a number of house for that, however not most of the women did. It wasn’t the simplest trip.”
Winehouse is about to be the topic of the biopic Again To Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. The movie stars Marisa Abela (Trade) because the late singer and charts her vibrant years residing in London, in addition to her intense rise to fame. It is because of be launched within the UK and Eire on April 12, 2024.
It was revealed this week that regardless of taking part in a pivotal function in her 2006 album ‘Again To Black’, the character of Mark Ronson is not going to be included within the upcoming movie of the identical title.
The actor Jeff Tunke claimed in an interview with the Daily Mail that the scenes he had filmed as Ronson had all been minimize from the ultimate film.
Nonetheless, Taylor-Johnson has since responded via a spokesperson, saying: “The character of Mark Ronson has by no means appeared on display screen within the movie, so it might not have been potential to ‘minimize all of the scenes’ involving Mark Ronson as they don’t exist.”
Alongside Abela, the biopic additionally stars Jack O’Connell as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan as Mitch, Juliet Cowan as her mom Janis, and Lesley Manville as her grandmother Cynthia.
Final month, particulars of the official soundtrack to Again To Black had been shared – that includes songs by the singer herself, in addition to tracks by different iconic artists. These embrace three tracks from 2003 debut album ‘Frank’, one other three from ‘Again To Black’, in addition to 5 songs from artists who had been an inspiration to Amy: The Shangri-Las, Billie Vacation, Minnie Riperton, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan.
Titled ‘Again To Black: Songs from the Unique Movement Image’, the compilation album is about for launch on Could 17 by way of UMR/Island Data.
This week, Dale Davis, Winehouse’s former musical confidante and the present chief of The Amy Winehouse Band, spoke to NME concerning the second that he realised that Winehouse was particular.
“It was my third gig with Amy, at Powis Sq., London [during The Notting Hill Carnival in August 2003]. I believed this could be a tough gig for her – a younger white woman in a predominantly Black setting, however inside half of her set, the sq. had utterly stuffed up. I believed she didn’t want a band as a result of her voice was so highly effective. She was on hearth.”
Piper, in the meantime, has not too long ago spoken about her divorce from the actor and controversial political commentator Laurence Fox, saying: “In fact I’ve emotions on that, I’m not useless inside.”
“I’ve needed to make some selections and a divorce speaks for itself,” she continued, after which added: “Or no less than it ought to!”