Marisa Abela knows there was something special about Amy Winehouse. “She affected so many people so deeply,” she recently told Valentina Valentini. “So, in a very real sense, I felt her often.” Abela tapped into that energy while making Back to Black, a biopic that focuses not on the well-documented tragedy of Winehouse’s life, but its triumphs. Abela was attracted to Matt Greenhalgh’s script and director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s vision because of the “life and joy and power and effervescence” that they held. “I want to tell a story that reminds me that she was a fucking riot, you know?”
Elsewhere in HWD, Will Forte opens up to Julie Miller about his new Netflix dramedy, Bodkin; Chris Murphy catches up with comedian Nikki Glaser; Donald Liebenson remembers the late Roger Corman; and Savannah Walsh tells us what to expect from a second season of Shōgun.
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