Amy Winehouse’s hilarious microphone moment on Justin Timberlake has been removed from a new biopic of the late singer.
Made with the approval of Amy’s family, the film is named after her 2006 album Back To Black, which gave the world her best-known single, Rehab.
In real life, when Amy won a Grammy for Rehab, she went viral for her cheeky reaction to the title of Justin’s new song, which was nominated over hers.
Although the new biopic recreates the dramatic moment he received the award, his scathing comment about Justin has been edited out.
The film has been criticized for its “sanitizing” approach to Amy’s life and career, which ended in 2011 when she died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27.
Amy Winehouse’s hilarious microphone moment on Justin Timberlake at the 2008 Grammys has been removed from Back To Black, a new biopic of the late singer.
Although the biopic recreates the Grammys, its scathing commentary on Justin has been removed; The Grammy sequence in the film appears with Marisa Abela as Amy.
When host Natalie Cole named Justin’s breakup single What Goes Around… Comes Around, Amy couldn’t contain herself; Justin appears in the song’s music video.
Amy’s hot moment in front of the microphone occurred three years earlier, during a much higher moment: the night she won Record of the Year at the Grammys for Rehab.
She was standing in front of a microphone after singing and seemed unaware that she was still in front of the camera while the list of nominees was read.
When host Natalie Cole named Justin’s breakup single What Goes Around… Comes Around, Amy couldn’t contain herself.
She grimaced, turned to someone near her and asked in disbelief: ‘Your album is called What Goes Around… Comes Around?’
Then, when Rehab was announced as the winner, Amy stood stunned into silence, her mouth hanging open in disbelief as the audience erupted in applause.
The new film, Back To Black, was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, 57, whose husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 33, is rumored to be next in line to play James Bond.
Lead actress Marisa Abela has won acclaim for her portrayal of Amy, even as the film itself received a colder reception.
Veteran film critic Peter Travers called the film “disinfecting and superficial” for ABC Newswhile praising the “breathtaking ferocity and feeling” of Marisa’s performance.
She grimaced, turned to someone near her and asked in disbelief: ‘Your album is called What Goes Around… Comes Around?’
When Amy won a Grammy for Rehab, she went viral for her cheeky reaction to the title of Justin’s new song, What Goes Around…Comes Around, which was nominated over hers.
She was standing in front of a microphone after singing and seemed unaware that she was still in front of the camera while the list of nominees was read; Amy’s real Grammy performance in photo
“Back To Black is far from the first biopic to soften the edges of real people for the Hollywood treatment,” he says. New York Times annotated review. “But since the stated goal of the movie is to re-center Amy in her own story, it’s disgusting.”
The film was accused of having “nothing new or interesting to say about Amy Winehouse or her music”, in a review of the New York Observer.
Meanwhile the Associated Press The critic called Back To Black “a tame, mediocre affair” as a film and “dreadful” as a “portrait” of its subject.
Back To Black premiered in the UK on April 12, but didn’t premiere in the US until this Friday, more than a month later.
