Actress Marisa Abela has opened up about the effect playing Amy Winehouse had on her life - explaining that it left her feeling "empty" and "emotionally and physically exhausted".

Marisa Abela was so "physically and emotionally exhausted" by playing Amy Winehouse in Back to Black that she felt "a bit empty" at the end of the shoot. The Industry actress spent eight months playing the troubled Rehab singer in Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic,

Peter Hoskin also gave Back to Black a brutal one star review in the Daily Mail for downplaying Amy Winehouse’s struggles with addiction and eating disorders. “It’s like a perfume ad’s idea of addiction and mental illness; soft-focussed and pretty.

Marisa Abela says she “felt physically and emotionally exhausted” as well as empty in the wake of her role as Amy Winehouse. In Back To Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, Abela played the late singer-songwriter’s whirlwind rise to fame in London as she battled with drug addiction before her death in 2011.