Back to Black Movie - Stories from Set

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Back to Black Movie Featurette - Stories from Set

US Release Date: May 17, 2024
Starring: Eddie Marsan, Jack O'Connell, Marisa Abela
Director : Sam Taylor-Johnson
Synopsis: Singer Amy Winehouse's tumultuous relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil inspires her to write and record the groundbreaking album "Back to Black."
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Our film, "Back to Black," is an insight
00:06 into how Amy saw the world.
00:08 We're using her album, "Back to Black,"
00:10 to get a real insight into how she saw the people in her life
00:14 and how she loved very deeply and very hard.
00:18 We could sense from the script that it
00:20 was incredibly important that we kind of dived headfirst
00:24 into this love story.
00:28 I'm just very lucky that Jack is an incredibly
00:30 playful, fun, charismatic actor and person.
00:34 So we were just able to play off each other in a way that
00:38 felt really natural.
00:39 It was a fun experience for me as an actor
00:42 to let Jack take control in those scenes.
00:45 Her music shows us how she was feeling
00:49 and how she was feeling about the other people in her life,
00:52 about herself, about the world at any given time.
00:55 I always felt that it was very important to almost go
01:00 in as hard as I can straight away,
01:01 because once you step out on stage
01:04 and sing in front of 400 extras in the room sometimes,
01:08 it's just a completely raw, new experience.
01:11 These people often are Amy fans.
01:14 I definitely felt a desire to show them
01:18 what they were going to be getting straight away,
01:21 so that they would then feed back as an audience.
01:24 I think that was a part of playing a performer that you
01:28 can't really get in training.
01:31 After the first go, and they call cut,
01:35 the 400 extras really did cheer.
01:39 And that was such a gratifying feeling to me,
01:42 because it's one thing having your singing teachers be like,
01:45 you're doing great.
01:46 But to have a room full of strangers
01:47 essentially give me that feedback was--
01:51 I was just like, OK, we're on the right track here.
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01:58 [MUSIC ENDS]
02:01 [MUSIC ENDS]
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