The actor stars in the new biopic as Mitch Winehouse \u2013 who was publicly unhappy with how he was portrayed in Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary. <\/p>
Eddie Marsan has explained that new Amy Winehouse film Back to Black<\/a> is \u201cnot a riposte\u201d to Asif Kapadia\u2019s Oscar-winning 2015 documentary Amy.<\/p>\n Marsan has a key role in the biopic as Winehouse\u2019s father Mitch, who was publicly unhappy<\/a> about the way he was portrayed in the aforementioned film, and subsequently played a part in a separate documentary titled Reclaiming Amy in 2021.<\/p>\n But speaking during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Marsan explained that those documentaries did not factor into the new film.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a riposte to the documentary at all \u2013 the documentary is its own thing, and it\u2019s [Kapadia\u2019s] own narrative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut one thing I\u2019ve realised in the making of this film, is that when someone like Amy dies, somebody who\u2019s touched our lives in such a profound way, and it\u2019s kind of like a member of our family \u2013 because we hear her voice every day, when we\u2019re driving the kids to school\u00a0 or when we\u2019re cooking the Sunday dinner or whatever\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cWhen someone dies so young and so tragic[ally], there\u2019s a collective trauma. And the way we deal with trauma is to make sense of it and to create a comfortable narrative that we can latch on to.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThe comfortable narrative for this kind of trauma is to find someone to blame \u2013 because it\u2019s reassuring to find someone to blame. Because if my daughter doesn\u2019t meet someone like Blake [Fielder-Civil, Winehouse\u2019s ex-partner], or if you don\u2019t behave the way they say Mitch behaved, then it won\u2019t happen to us.<\/p>\n \u201cBut addiction doesn\u2019t work like that, addiction is arbitrary. It\u2019s random. It\u2019s cruel, and it\u2019s chaotic. And so, what I hope will come out from this film is that people will have more compassion for people with addiction and their families.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what I hope this film comes out with, and also a celebration of Amy.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Marsan had previously explained during an interview with Radio Times magazine<\/strong> that he would not have signed up for the film<\/a> if it \u201csanitised\u201d Mitch Winehouse or if it \u201cdemonised\u201d him.<\/p>\n Back to Black was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and stars Industry\u2019s Marisa Abela as Winehouse, while the supporting cast also includes Jack O\u2019Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil and Lesley Manville as Amy\u2019s grandmother Cynthia.<\/p> Back to Back will land in cinemas in UK and Ireland on Friday 12th April 2024.\u00a0<\/strong>Check out more of our\u00a0Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n