Industry actress Marisa Abela is the spitting image of the late icon. Here's everything we know about the highly-anticipated biopic, so far:
also has the full support of the Amy Winehouse Estate. A 2015 A24 documentary,, won an Oscar for its depiction of the Grammy-winning singer’s decline into addiction and eventual death from alcohol poisoning in 2011, but was infamously derided by Winehouse’s father for its depiction of him. According to studios,will track “Amy Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London in the early aughts and her intense journey to fame.
“My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden,” Taylor-Johnson said in a statement. “I got a job at the legendary Koko Club, and I can still breathe every market stall, vintage shop and street… A few years later Amy wrote her searingly honest songs whilst living in Camden. Like with me, it became part of her DNA.
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