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‘Back to Black’ Director Sam Taylor-Johnson Defends Positive Depictions of Amy Winehouse’s Dad and Ex-Husband in Biopic: ‘We’re in Her Perspective’
'Back to Black' director Sam Taylor-Johnson is defending the depictions of Mitch Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in her Amy Winehouse biopic.
Mitch has been the subject of scrutiny since Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, portrayed in the British media as a fame-seeker who exploited his daughter’s success to aid his own singing career (something echoed in Asif Kapadia’s Oscar-winning 2015 documentary “Amy”). “And then once I did start singing Amy’s music, what became really clear to me was that I could continue to tell her emotional story and live her psychological life and her truth through these moments, and you would lose that if we’d cut to a studio recording,” she says. In the end, Abela almost sang throughout — the sole moment the audience hears Winehouse’s original voice is when one of her songs is played on a jukebox in a pub.
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