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Back to Black star Eddie Marsan blasts narrative that Amy Winehouse's father Mitch or husband Blake Fielder-Civil contributed to her death: 'Addiction is the villain'


The English actor, 55, who plays Mitch Winehouse in the biopic released in cinemas on Friday, instead said that addiction should be viewed as the 'main villain'.

Speaking about the pressure of filming Back to Black, which director Sam Taylor-Johnson said is told using Amy's own diaries, Eddie said the public have an idea of who she was. Speaking about the pressure of filming Back to Black, which director Sam Taylor-Johnson said is told using Amy's own diaries, Eddie said the public have an idea of who she was The role is not Eddie's first in a musical style, as it was revealed he was first discovered in a night club when he was scouted as an extra from the 1987 crime thriller Empire State.

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