Back To Black actress Marisa Abela reveals she got the part 'before anyone knew ... trends now
Marisa Abela has revealed she got the part as Amy Winehouse in the upcoming Back To Black biopic before 'anyone even know if she could sing or not'.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, set to air Saturday night, Marisa, 27, made the astonishing confession when speaking about her auditioning process.
Marisa admitted she had to take hours of singing lessons to get the part perfect as she transforms into the late singer.
Speaking alongside the director of the biopic Sam Taylor-Johnson, she says: 'I don’t think anyone even asked me in the audition process if I could sing!
'I knew Sam and I felt the same way that whoever was going to play this part needed to be Amy from the inside out.'
Marisa Abela, 27, has revealed she got the part as Amy Winehouse in the upcoming Back To Black biopic before 'anyone even know if she could sing or not'
Marisa admitted she had to take hours of singing lessons to get the part perfect as she transforms into the late singer (Marisa pictured as Amy Winehouse in the upcoming movie)
She adds: 'For me when I got the job I wanted to learn to sing as much as I could because this was her chosen medium - this is her artform, this is how she expressed herself.
'It felt so odd to do all of this work and then come to open my mouth to sing and cut to a studio recording. I trained really hard, I trained for two hours a day for four months.'
On how she felt taking on such a huge role with the pressure of playing the iconic singer, Marisa says: 'It was definitely nerve-wracking. You have to take that fear and use it as a driving factor in your preparation.
'I wanted to use that energy that I had. It’s an element of responsibility that you feel. I took that responsibility and I worked pretty hard.
'You have to do a lot of work to make her physically recognisable as the person that everyone knows.
