Marisa Abela had never sung in public before signing on to play Amy Winehouse. Here, the 27-year-old actor shares what it took to embody one of music's most famous voices.
How do you get in character to play someone as singular as Amy Winehouse? For Marisa Abela, the 27-year-old British actress tapped by director Sam Taylor-Johnson to star as the singer in her upcoming biopic, it meant embracing Winehouse’s musical tastes, watching hours of footage, and studying her mannerisms. Still, if Abela was actually going to sing, she’d have to do something that Winehouse — rarely photographed without a cigarette — would not have approved of.
Abela is sympathetic. “These songs are with you at important moments in your life, and who am I to someone who went through heartbreak with Amy Winehouse?” she says. During the filmmaking process, Abela struggled with the force of some fans’ objections to her. “It was confusing, trying to separate my own nerves and anxiety about being on set, from Amy being in a really vulnerable place,” she says. “I’d never been so exposed as a person. I felt raw.” She ultimately decided to just keep going.
Stella McCartney jacket, Citizens of Humanity jeans, Free People shorts, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, ARSN The Label ring, with its Ivor Novello Award–winning single “Stronger Than Me.” At 22, she fell in love with Blake Fielder-Civil. Their relationship and subsequent marriage were volatile; she drank heavily and followed him into heroin use, all of which was distressingly documented by the media.
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