{"id":48876,"date":"2024-04-02T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2018652"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:05:43","slug":"eddie-marsan-i-wouldnt-do-back-to-black-if-it-sanitised-mitch-winehouse","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/eddie-marsan-i-wouldnt-do-back-to-black-if-it-sanitised-mitch-winehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Marsan: \u2018I wouldn\u2019t do Back to Black if it sanitised Mitch Winehouse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marsan plays Amy Winehouse’s father in the new biopic. <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 02 April 2024 at 14:29 PM<\/p>

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New Amy Winehouse biopic film Back to Black<\/a> is releasing in UK cinemas on Friday 12th April, and it stars Marisa Abela<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0the iconic singer, while Jack O\u2019Connell plays her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil and\u00a0Eddie Marsan plays her father Mitch.<\/p>\n

Marsan spoke about his role in the film in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, and called Back to Black a \u201cbeautiful tribute to Amy\u201d.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s not ghoulish or exploitative. It shows her incredible talent, and that she wasn\u2019t just defined by addiction. Addiction \u2013 and the paparazzi \u2013 are the villains of the piece. It isn\u2019t Blake [Amy\u2019s husband] or Mitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether it was unfair that some people blamed Mitch for what happened, Marsan said: \u201cI asked a friend of mine, who worked quite closely with Amy, for his assessment of Mitch, and if he agreed with the public narrative that he was, in some way, to blame for Amy\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me Mitch was just a normal father \u2013 a cab driver \u2013 dealing with a child with addiction, who was also one of the most famous women in the world. And you couldn\u2019t tell Amy what to do, she was a force of nature. As a father of four teenagers myself, I make mistakes, but I do the best I can. I wouldn\u2019t have done the film if it sanitised Mitch, or demonised him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Marsan also revealed that he met Mitch \u201cquite a few times\u201d and explained that he once had to sing\u00a0Fly Me to the Moon, so he asked Mitch to record it for him.<\/p>\n

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