Lady Gaga Not Playing Amy Winehouse in Biopic

 

Lady Gaga will not be starring in a biopic of Amy Winehouse, contrary to news reported over the weekend.

Over the weekend, Amy Winehouse’s father implied that Lady Gaga would play his daughter in a biopic. He, however, later retracted that statement, on Twitter and through a spokesperson to Entertainment Weekly.

Originally, he was reported as saying to the press: "I have heard that Lady GaGa is keen to play Amy in a film. I don't know what her English accent is like but it's not just an English accent she would have to perfect - it's an English-Cockney-Jewish accent so she better start practising now. But she would be great."

He then tweeted: "I never said Lady GaGa will play Amy in film. Also Amy's room not a shrine. Wot a load of rubbish. Mitch (sic)."

A spokesperson for the family then clarified: “Mitch and the family would entertain ideas perhaps for a film but only one they were sure would tell the truth.”

At one point, Winehouse’s former boyfriend Reg Traviss was asked to direct a biopic, but he turned it down, telling MTV: "I guess a biopic is inevitable. I have been asked but I honestly don't think I could do it. I'd be too close to it. […] But whoever does write and direct the film may exaggerate certain points to make it more 'Hollywood'. The family would want to be involved to make sure that it's done justice. But right now it's all too raw."

This week, the late Winehouse’s posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures hit No. 1 in the U.K. About the news, her mother, Janis, told the press: "It’s such amazing news that Amy’s album has gone to number one, and just goes to show what she still means to people."

Do you think an Amy Winehouse biopic should be done? Or, is it too soon to even think about it?