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‘Back To Black’ Filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson On Why Blake Fielder-Civil Deserves Sympathy In Amy Winehouse Biopic – Crew Call Podcast

Interview with director Sam Taylor-Johnson about her creative choices in 'Back to Black'.

For filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson, whose directing career blasted to a whole other state of euphoria with the feature take of bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey(near $570M worldwide), her intent was to see Winehouse’s life through the singer’s eyes. Singers’ estates can be notorious: If Hollywood tries to make a warts-all movie, well then they’ll just hold the song clearances hostage and bar the film from being made. Still, she the filmmaker chose to meet with Winehouse’s parents, Janice and Mitch “to hear their stories and to let them feel heard as well.

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