Director Asif Kapadia opened up about Amy Winehouse’s very public persona before her death at an event for the documentary, Amy, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kapadia is from the London area Winehouse was from, so he was happy to shed light on one of his own.
“I very much felt, ‘I can’t believe this is happening down the road from where I live,’” he said of her struggles with fame being widely reported in the media, Washington Post reports.
“One of my reasons for wanting to do it was, I’ve finally found a subject to do about home,” he said of taking on the project.
The trailer for Amy was released in April, which focused on her upbringing, pre-fame.
Kapadia continued of Winehouse’s family’s objections to the film, saying he isn’t blaming any one person for her death.
“It’s turning the mirror on everyone, saying, we’re all slightly to blame, complicit, a part of this system — this circus — that it became,” he said.
Winehouse died at the age of 27 in 2011 from alcohol poisoning.
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