Eddie Marsan has revealed Amy Winehouse‘s family staged nine interventions in a bid to try and save her amid her drink and drugs battle.

The actor, 55, plays Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse in Back To Black, a biopic about the singer’s life, and spent time with her family while researching the role.

In an interview with The Times, Eddie revealed he bonded with Mitch, 73, having grown up in the same area of east London, and that during their chats the former taxi driver admitted to ‘making mistakes’ with Amy.

Eddie shared: ‘When I first met him he said, “Oh hello, another Stepney boy.” He’s much more self-aware and candid than he’s perceived.

‘He talked about the experience of having a daughter who was an addict and one of the most famous women in the world, and with every drug dealer in London wanting to give her drugs. He told me he’d made mistakes — he’d be, “What could I have done differently?”‘

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Eddie Marsan has revealed Amy Winehouse’s family staged nine interventions in a bid to try and save her amid her drink and drugs battle

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Eddie revealed that in a chat with Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse the former taxi driver admitted to ‘making mistakes’ with his daughter (Amy and Mitch pictured in 2006)

Eddie concluded: ‘But one thing I did realise is, the family did nine interventions. They tried to get help. My daughter’s 19 — if she was famous with that much money and a habit, I don’t know if I could help her.’

The Sherlock star previously dismissed the ‘narrative’ that either Mitch or Amy’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil were to blame for her death.

Speaking on The One Show last week, Eddie said that he believes Amy’s death affected so many people so much that they needed to create a ‘comfortable narrative’.

The talented singer died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011 at the age of 27.

Reflecting on the public’s reaction to her untimely death, Eddie shared: ‘The comfortable narrative for everybody was that there was someone to blame, it was either Blake or Mitch, and you create a narrative of villains of an victims.’

Eddie continued: ‘The reason why that’s comfortable is you think “Well if my daughter doesn’t marry someone like Blake or if I don’t behave like Mitch then my daughter won’t die” but that’s not how addiction works.’

Speaking about the pressure of filming Back to Black, which director Sam Taylor-Johnson said is told using Amy’s own diaries, Eddie said the public have an idea of who she was.

‘The interesting thing is I have never been involved in a film where the pubic have as much ownership of a subject as they do of Amy,’ he said.

‘And the thing is when someone like Amy dies so young, who affected our lives in such a profound way, there’s like a collective trauma.’

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The actor, 55, plays Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse in Back To Black, a biopic about the singer’s life, and spent time with her family while researching the role (pictured with Marisa Abel)

Eddie added: ‘Addiction is arbitrary and cruel and we all know some addicts come from the most loving families, and they’re still addicts.

‘What I love about this film, and the main reason I’m really proud of it, is because the main villain is addiction.

Back To Black sees Marisa Abel, 27, play Amy while actor Jack O’Connell, 33, plays her widower Blake.

Lesley Manville CBE, 68, also stars in the film as Amy’s mother Cynthia Winehouse.

The film, which has been endorsed by Mitch, has drawn outrage from the singer’s pals who slammed it for it’s ‘ghoulish’ depictions of the star’s drug addiction and also filming her funeral.

Blake, who was wed to the singer between 2007 and 2009, previously admitted introducing her to heroin and is seen by many of her fans as partly responsible for her death from alcohol poisoning.

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Back To Black sees Marisa, 27, play Amy while actor Jack O’Connell , 33, plays her widower Blake Fielder-Civil