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Jack O’Connell Says the Amy Winehouse Biopic Isn’t ‘Pointing Fingers’
The Back to Black star on finding compassion for the late singer’s ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.
The way director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh avoid re-creating certain on-the-record elements of Fielder-Civil’s relationship with Winehouse (like his admission that he introduced her to heroin) has divided critical responses to Back to Black. It requires a wiry physical presence, as seen in Starred Up and Godless; a rough-and-ready romantic appeal, as in Little Fish and Lady Chatterley’s Lover; and a hidden core of self-critical vulnerability, as in Jungleland and The North Water. He is so deeply committed to finding the gnarly truth of a moment.” Was there a moment while making Back to Black when it felt like you were being hurled into the air without a crash pad?
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