Marisa Abela: Everything to Know About Actress Playing Amy Winehouse in ‘Back To Black’ Movie

Amy Winehouse’s story, with its successes and sadness, volition beryllium told successful Back To Black, the caller biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, Fifty Shades of Grey, A Million Little Pieces.) The histrion taking connected the monumental situation of portraying Amy connected surface is Marisa Abela, the breakout prima of HBO’s Industry. On Jan. 13, the satellite got its archetypal look of Marisa dressed successful Amy’s trademark achromatic bouffant, dangly earrings, and quality mark.

First look astatine Marisa Abela arsenic Amy Winehouse successful Sam Taylor-Johnson's Amy Winehouse biopic ‘BACK TO BLACK’. pic.twitter.com/BvlcWz9cnR

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“My transportation to Amy began erstwhile I near assemblage and was hanging retired successful the creatively divers London borough of Camden,” said Taylor-Johnson, per Deadline. “I got a occupation astatine the legendary Koko Club, and I tin inactive respire each marketplace stall, vintage shop, and street… A fewer years later, Amy wrote her searingly honorable songs whilst surviving successful Camden. Like with me, it became portion of her DNA. I archetypal saw her execute astatine a endowment amusement astatine Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club successful Soho, and it was instantly evident she wasn’t just’ talent’… she was genius.”

Filming for Back To Black begins connected Jan. 16, 2023. As the satellite readies for the film’s completion, here’s what you request to cognize astir the movie’s star.

Marisa Abela Is A British Actress

Marisa Abela (b. Dec. 7, 1996) was calved “to a signifier histrion parent and a comedian-turned-director father,” per W magazine. With specified parents, she had a little “rebellion” wherever she considered being a quality rights lawyer earlier she relented and began to enactment successful the household business. She attended the Roedean School earlier attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She graduated successful 2019 and experienced her breakout successful 2020.

She Got Her Foot In The ‘Industry’

“If you would person told maine astatine the opening of RADA that connected my graduation day, I’d person gotten a bid backmost that greeting from Cardiff filming an HBO show,” she told The Cut. Marisa’s breakout came successful 2020 erstwhile she landed the relation of Yasmin Kara-Hanani successful Industry, an HBO tv play (dubbed “The First Great Gen Z Workplace Drama” by GQ). Industry follows a radical of young graduates competing for positions astatine a prestigious concern slope successful London. Season 2 finished successful September 2022, and HBO renewed it for a third.

“I emotion a amusement that doesn’t archer the assemblage however to feel,” Marisa told Complex following the extremity of Season 2. “I deliberation that it’s truly refreshing and nice. What it means is that the fans of the show, the radical that bask it, person incredibly antithetic opinions. … It conscionable is what it is. I person my ain idiosyncratic opinions. As an actor, I can’t justice Yasmin arsenic harshly arsenic possibly an assemblage subordinate might; I person to effort and recognize wherever she’s coming from and wherefore she does what she does. It’s easier to play a quality who was portrayed arsenic a villain oregon a bully feline if they conscionable bash what they do. It’s up to everyone other to determine however they consciousness astir that.”

Life In Plastic, It’s Fantastic

In 2020, Marisa besides appeared successful Series 1 of COBRA, a British tv play centered astir Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, the determination successful Whitehall wherever the British Prime Minister holds exigency meetings.

Marisa was formed alongside a who’s who of stars for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. “If you’d person told maine that by the clip I was 25, I’d person worked with Lena Dunham and Greta Gerwig, I’d person geeked out,” Marisa told W Magazine, referencing however Lena besides directed the Industry pilot episode. Marisa’s relation successful Barbie was, similar others successful the cast, kept nether wraps successful the lead-up to the film’s release.

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“It’s different. It’s evidently a large Hollywood movie,” she told Vanity Fair about Barbie. “It was the biggest acceptable I’ve ever been on. You tin truly consciousness the beast of Hollywood down it successful a bully way. Whereas Industry, it’s evidently HBO, it’s tally done Bad Wolf successful Wales. It’s overmuch much personable. So that was a truly breathtaking acquisition for maine to beryllium connected specified a immense set. It was conscionable precise breathtaking and amusive and new. Other than immense MCU-type films, I don’t cognize erstwhile the adjacent clip I’d beryllium connected a acceptable similar that.

She’s Glad To Start A Conversation

“Women conflict with their sexuality and sensuality, and determination are truthful galore astonishing tv bid and books that assistance america recognize that, but what if, conscionable once, with this character, that is not the issue?” Marisa told W Magazine about her Industry character’s on-screen intersexual joy. “She loves her body, she loves having sex, she loves the mode radical are attracted to her. And that conscionable turns her connected successful each facet of that phrase. I thought, arsenic a benignant of a provocation point, wherefore don’t we conscionable spell for that? If the question connected the exam is, ‘Is Yasmin purely blessed successful her sexuality?’ Then yes. ‘Discuss?’ That’s what the amusement does.”

Marvel, Maybe?

When the Marvel Cinematic Universe decides to movie Phase 5, they tin telephone Marisa. “I would emotion to bash it,” she said to VF about being successful a immense Marvel movie. “It would beryllium truthful fun. I deliberation it’s amusive to dip successful and retired of each antithetic benignant of genre. People don’t recognize the benignant of worldly you bash astatine play school. It’s truthful physical. I would emotion to bash thing that was successful immoderate way, physically demanding.”

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