Amy Winehouse's Friend Tyler James Said "Back To Black" Was "Hugely Triggering"

This station contains discussions of substance maltreatment and scenes from the upcoming biopic Back to Black.

Back to Black, according to the authoritative synopsis, tells the "extraordinary communicative of Amy Winehouse’s aboriginal emergence to fame from her aboriginal days successful Camden done the making of her groundbreaking medium Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to planetary fame."

It volition besides chronicle the "many layers of the iconic creator and the tumultuous emotion communicative astatine the halfway of 1 of the astir legendary albums of each time," per the synopsis.

The movie features Marisa Abela arsenic Amy and Sam Taylor-Johnson arsenic director.

It released successful the UK connected April 12, and afterward, Tyler, who's reportedly referenced doubly successful the film, spoke retired to stock his occupation with it.

Speaking to The Times Magazine, Tyler said helium felt the movie didn't adequately seizure parts of Amy's life, including her cause addiction.

“There is this consciousness of Amy being coherent adjacent erstwhile taking drugs, but determination was truthful overmuch suffering," James explained.

"The movie avoids the uncomfortable. I didn’t similar it, and it was hugely triggering for me," helium continued.

James besides said 1 country of movie Amy utilizing a ace tube was truthful upsetting, helium wished he'd watched the movie with "a intelligence wellness professional." "I could conscionable odor the crack. I should person been watching that movie with a intelligence wellness nonrecreational adjacent to me. It took maine consecutive backmost to that time," helium said. "I astir apt dependable mean now, but I inactive endure from anxiousness and slump and it was similar I had a day-long panic onslaught afterwards. I couldn’t slumber Friday nighttime oregon Saturday night.”

Another happening that bothered James — who had known Amy since puerility and lived with her anterior to her tragic 2011 decease from intoxicant poisoning — is however overmuch the movie centered her narration with her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.

"It focuses mode excessively overmuch connected Blake," James argued. "Amy would person been pleased for Blake [because of his sympathetic portrayal], but she wouldn’t person liked the film. She was precise real. She was besides precise comic and intelligent.”

Back to Black releases successful US theaters connected May 17.

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