Mark Ronson was Amy Winehouse’s producer and collaborator who helped her reach great creative and commercial heights with her biggest songs.
But the Daily Mail reports that the role of Oscar winner Ronson has been cut from forthcoming biopic about the London singer.
The movie is named after Winehouse’s second award-winning album and classic track, Back to Black, which Ronson produced. It reports that Canadian actor Jeff Tunke filmed scenes in character as Ronson, but the scenes have been cut from the final edit, and Tunke’s name removed from the movie’s credits on IMDB.
The Mail quotes the biopic’s producers who explained: “The character of Mark Ronson has never appeared on screen in the film, so it would not have been possible to ‘cut all the scenes’ involving Mark Ronson as they do not exist.” Ronson worked with Winehouse during her most productive time, collaborating on tracks Back to Black and Rehab.
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