‘I ain’t no Spice Girl’ - Marisa Abela belts out Amy Winehouse hits in first teaser trailer for Back to Black

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11 Jan 2024, 11:24

The first official teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, has dropped. 

Marisa Abela stars as the late Rehab singer in the movie, which follows her journey to fame from her early years living in London to becoming a Grammy Award-winning artist. 

The stellar cast includes The Crown star Lesley Manville as grandmother Cynthia, Jack O’Connell as ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil and Eddie Marsan as dad Mitch. 

In the trailer, fans get a glimpse of the performances of Marisa as Amy. The Industry actress recorded some of the artist’s biggest hits for the upcoming flick. 

The teaser trailer begins with Marisa’s Amy on stage in front of an adoring crowd, while off-screen she talks about the inspiration behind her lyrics. 

Watch the first Back to Black teaser trailer below: 

“I don’t write songs to be famous, I write songs because I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t,” Amy says. 

While the trailer documents her humble beginnings, it quickly speeds through Amy’s stratospheric rise to fame with packed-out performances and paparazzi chases. 

“I ain’t no Spice Girl,” she adds, before telling someone off-screen; “I want to be remembered for just being me.”

Filmmaker and visual artist Sam Taylor-Johnson is at the helm as director and executive producer. 

Speaking when Back to Black was first announced, Sam explained: "My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden. 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.

"I first saw her perform at a talent show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho and it was immediately obvious she wasn’t just ’talent’ - she was genius. As a filmmaker you can’t really ask for more. I feel excited and humbled to have this opportunity to realise Amy’s beautifully unique and tragic story to cinema accompanied by the most important part of her legacy – her music.”

Back to Black will hit UK cinemas on 12th April 2024.