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Inside Marisa Abela’s ‘Back to Black’ Transformation: How Movement Coach Sara Green Helped Her ‘Inhabit’ Amy Winehouse ‘From the Inside Out’
Movement coach Sara Green spent three months with 'Back to Black' star Marisa Abela before the Amy Winehouse biopic starting shooting.
This was the task given to Sara Green, the choreographer and movement coach who worked closely with “ Back to Black ” star Marisa Abela to help transform her into Amy Winehouse for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic, which releases in the U.K. today with StudioCanal (and in the U.S. on May 17 with Focus Features). And with the biopic charting her meteoric rise from talented pub singer to her breakout debut album “Frank” to global recognition and multi Grammy-winning success with “Back to Black,” this was also something Green and Abela had to take into — highly-detailed — account. “It meant she really had to hold herself with a huge amount of strength,” says Green, who adds that, with Winehouse going from wearing ballet pumps to high heels, she had “pull all her weight into the center of her body to try and keep her balance.”
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