Back to black filmmakers Sam Taylor Johnson talks about the tabloid press scrutinizing the late singer Amy Winehouse faced her early death. The director spoke with us The Hollywood Reporter recently and explains how Kate Middleton is facing the same kind of onslaught amid her health crisis.
According to Taylor-Johnson, the furor that surrounded Winehouse before and after her death was similar to the firestorm of speculation and attention that the Princess of Wales had to deal with before and after her death. reveals her cancer diagnosis. And it’s not entirely the fault of the media for feeding the hungry beast that is the public.
“People just want more, more, more,” shares Taylor-Johnson. “There is an insatiable appetite for every bit of information about someone so public.”
According to the director, she felt some sort of connection to Middleton’s plight. She was diagnosed with colon cancer when she was 30, around the time she gave birth to her first child with her former husband, and then breast cancer three years later.
“All you really want to do is wrap yourself and your family up,” Taylor-Johnson remembers of that time in her life. That’s why when she saw Middleton having to publicly address her private health battle to stop the frenzy of conspiracy theories and speculation, she felt “afraid of what she was going through.”
Today, at 57, Taylor-Johnson is still in the tabloids’ sights due to her marriage to her younger actor husband Aaron Taylor Johnson33.
“There are times when it’s uncomfortable,” she says. “Most of the time we keep quiet and stay pretty private. We tend to withdraw. Kids and school runs keep you pretty grounded.”
The couple met in 2009 on the set of their directorial film. Nowhere boy. They developed a romance and began a relationship before tying the knot in June 2012. The couple has two daughters together, while the filmmaker is also mother to two other daughters from her previous marriage.
With your new film Back to blackTaylor-Johnson wants to share some of the brightness and glory of Winehouse’s life, which was overshadowed by her tragic death in 2011 at the age of 27.
“All of that [Winehouse] “I wanted to get her to a place where she had her agency back.”
Back to black — In the main role Marisa Abela with the legendary singer – will be in cinemas on May 17th.
Regarding Middleton’s surprising health revelationET spoke with royal expert Katie Nicholl back in March to get some insight into the overwhelming tabloid coverage.
Acknowledging the public’s insatiable search for information about Middleton’s absence, Nicholl told ET she believes “lessons have been learned” when it comes to how the palace shares details.
“I understand that the king really stood behind her when she made that video message, even if it was a small breach of protocol, just a small deviation from the norm, because he recognizes how important that connection with the public is. Nicholl said of King Charles, who also announced his own cancer diagnosis earlier this year. “He also received the support of the public, and he has.” [helped] him through a very difficult time.
“I understand that and can exclusively reveal on ET that she spoke to her father-in-law prior to the news,” Nicholl said, and of course her husband, knowing that what she was doing was actually a little different than that from her the norm and both gave their full support and recognized that this was the best way to do it.
For more on the controversial coverage of the Princess of Wales, watch the video below.
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