Back to Black star Eddie Marsan blasts narrative that Amy Winehouse's father ... trends now
Back to Black actor Eddie Marsan has dismissed the 'narrative' that either Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil or father Mitch Winehouse were to blame for her death.
The English actor, 55, who plays Mitch in the biopic released in cinemas on Friday, instead said that addiction should be viewed as the 'main villain'.
Speaking on The One Show on Tuesday, Eddie said that he believes Amy's death affected so many people so much that they needed to create a 'comfortable narrative'.
The talented singer died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011 at the age of 27.
Reflecting on the public's reaction to her untimely death, Eddie shared: 'The comfortable narrative for everybody was that there was someone to blame, it was either Blake or Mitch, and you create a narrative of villains of an victims.'
Back to Black actor Eddie Marsan has dismissed the 'narrative' that either Amy Winehouse 's husband Blake Fielder-Civil or father Mitch Winehouse were to blame for her death
The English actor, 55, who plays Mitch Winehouse in the biopic (pictured with Marisa Abela as Amy) instead said that addiction should be viewed as the 'main villain'
Mitch Winehouse (left) pictured at the opening of the Amy Winehouse exhibition in 2021 and Blake Fielder-Civil pictured during a rare media appearance at GMB in 2023
Eddie continued: 'The reason why that's comfortable is you think "Well if my daughter doesn't marry someone like Blake or if I don't behave like Mitch then my daughter won't die" but that's not how addiction works.'
Speaking about the pressure of filming Back to Black, which director Sam Taylor-Johnson said is told using Amy's own diaries, Eddie said the public have an idea of who she was.
'The interesting thing is I have never been involved in a film where the pubic have as much ownership of a subject as they do of Amy,' he said.
'And the thing is when someone like Amy dies so young, who affected our lives in such a profound way, there's like a collective trauma.'
He added: 'Addiction is arbitrary and cruel and we all know some addicts come from the most loving families, and they're still addicts.
'What I love about this film, and the main reason I’m really proud of it, is because the main villain is addiction.'
The actor went on to reveal he had spoken with a friend that had worked with Mitch and Amy in the music industry so approached him about his new role.
Of how he wanted to portray Amy's father, he said: 'I wasn't interested in the narrative that was out there I said "I want you to tell me what Mitch was like".
'He said "I liked the man Eddie. I thought he was a loving father but he was in an impossible situation.
"He
