Jack O’Connell and Eddie Marsan cast in Amy Winehouse biopic

• Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville cast in Amy Winehouse biopic.
• Sam Taylor-Johnson is directing the movie.
• The biopic has the support of Mitch Winehouse.

Back to Black, the biopic of Amy Winehouse, has been cast and stars Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Lesley Manville.

The group has boarded the new film in which Marisa Abela plays the tragic Grammy Award-winning singer.

Sam Taylor-Johnson, who was close to the musician before she passed tragically in 2011 at the age of 27, is directing the movie.

O’Connell will take on the character of Blake Fielder-Civil, who wed Amy in 2007 but later divorced her due to their tumultuous, drug- and alcohol-fueled relationship.

Mitch Winehouse’s father will be played by Marsan, and Cynthia Winehouse’s maternal grandmother will be portrayed by Manville.

The biopic has the support of Mitch Winehouse and he is pleased that the project will concentrate on his daughter’s “talent”.

He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It’s something we’re excited about as a family because it will concentrate on Amy’s talent. And when all is said and done, that’s what we are left with.

“It will be amazing for fans to relive her genius and introduce her music to a whole new generation. Amy loved championing artists so she would have been so excited to see what Marisa will bring to the role and would be very supportive of her.”

Taylor-Johnson said of the movie: “My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden.

“I got a job at the legendary Kolo Club, and I can still breathe every market stall, vintage shop and street… A few years later Amy wrote her searingly honest songs whilst living in Camden.

“Like with me, it became part of her DNA. I first saw her perform at a talent show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho and it was immediately obvious she wasn’t just ‘talent’… she was genius.”

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