Back To Black with Marisa Abela & Sam Taylor-Johnson

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, it's all about the Amy Winehouse biopick

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Back to Black. I'd talk with
Marissa Abella and Sam Taylor Johnson. Let's

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go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with
Kyle McMahon from my Heart Radio, your

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pop culture news, views, reviews, and celebrity interviews on Fall, the

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Movies, TV music, and Pomp
Culture U Crab Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Nana no no, no no,
Hello, and welcome the pop Culture

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Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I of
course am Kyle McMahon, and I am

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so hyped that you are hanging out
with me for another episode of the show.

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Today is all about the Amy Winehouse
biopick Back to Black, which you've

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got to see. It's in theaters
now. If you're a fan of you

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know, biopicks or Amy Whitehouse or
you know compelling dramas. It really is

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is a great film. They you
can see my full review up on popcultureweekly

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dot com and I go into depth, in depth on you know, the

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film and the performances are absolutely incredible
and Marissa does all of her own singing,

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which is a big task when you're
you know, emulating a iconic voice.

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Like Amy Winehouse. So let's get
right into it. I talk with

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Marissa Abbeyo, who plays Amy Winehouse, and Sam Taylor Johnson, who directs

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it. Here we go. Hey, thank you both for speaking with me.

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I really appreciate it. I love
Back to Black. It's an amazing

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film. Thank you, of course. So this question is for both of

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you. But Marissa, I'll start
with you. Do you feel that there

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is a responsibility or pressure or something
like that when you're portraying, you know,

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a person who has lived you know, yeah, I mean definitely,

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you know, there's definitely, I
mean there's definitely a responsibility. I feel

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that the biggest responsibility you have is
to the person that you're playing, and

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to play them authentically and with a
hell of a lot of you know,

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awareness, And I think that that
comes from preparation. I think that you

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have to work as hard as you
can to get inside them, inside their

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skin. I think with someone like
Amy particularly, there's a lot of from

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the outside in with her. You
know, we've seen her story play out,

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but we've seen it play out sort
of from a more sort of voyeuristic

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point of view. So to be
the person that's inside her, I felt

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it was important that I was really
inhabiting her soul, you know that.

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Of course, the mannerisms are important, and the voice and the physicality and

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all of those things are necessary for
it to be a recognizable performance as Amy

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Winehouse. But most importantly, I
wanted there to be just the feeling of

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Amy, the essence of Amy just
being overpowering in this movie, because it

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was her soul as well as her
artistry that was what everyone made everyone fall

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in love with her in the first
place. I love that, Thank you,

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and Sam similarly for you, although
you know you obviously did Nowhere a

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Boy, which which has a bit
of that element to it obviously, but

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how about for you in general?
With that, Yeah, I mean I

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think that there's an enormous responsibility and
I really felt it with this particularly.

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I mean I felt it with you
know, Noah Boy and John Lennon,

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but with this it just felt very
different, and I felt like one of

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the most important things for me was
to come to it with no judgment,

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you know, to sort of just
come to it with absolute humanity and the

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hope that people would also respond to
that in a way and look at her

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life as complex as not just you
know, a victim of her tragedy,

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but you know, look at the
creative soul of who she was and just

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to really celebrate the music again and
to sort of keep everyone you know,

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on on track with the music and
that be the sort of north star of

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who she was. I love that. Thank you both so much. That's

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my time. I really appreciate it. I can't wait for everybody to see

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back to play Me too. Thank
you bye, Marissa Bella and Sam Taylor

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Johnson. I love their insight into
the filming of this movie. It's got

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to be really tough, I would
think when you're doing a biopic, especially

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one where you know that person lived
recently, you know. I mean I

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always wondered about that. If the
person is still with us, or you

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know, it's been relatively recent,
is there extra pressure or you know,

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is it easier if you're playing like
some historic figure that none of us were

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around for from a thousand years ago
or one hundred years ago or whatever.

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Is that easier? You know?
So it always intrigues me. Back to

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Black is in theaters right now.
I do recommend to watch. It's a

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great film, and like I said, the performances are incredible. Both the

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acting performances and the musical performances.
So huge props to the cast and crew

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of Back to Black for making that
happen. That's got to be a huge

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undertaking, especially with you know,
somebody with that iconic voice like like Amy

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Winehouse. So that is our show
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