{"id":214676,"date":"2026-01-04T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/marisa-abela-struggles-to-remove-emotion-from-her-acting-work\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:51:14","slug":"marisa-abela-struggles-to-remove-emotion-from-her-acting-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/marisa-abela-struggles-to-remove-emotion-from-her-acting-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Marisa Abela struggles to remove emotion from her acting work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-01-04\" datetime=\"1767531074\" pubdate=\"\">4 January 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Marisa Abela finds it difficult to separate emotions from her acting work.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Marisa Abela puts everything into her acting jobs<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old actress fully invests herself into her roles and feels that her profession can be emotionally draining during difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>Marisa told The Sunday Times newspaper: &#8220;You&#8217;re putting yourself on the line, so every time you don&#8217;t get a job or a film doesn&#8217;t work out the way you think it will, you&#8217;re wrestling with your own sense of, do I deserve to be here? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emotions have never been something I&#8217;ve been afraid of, which makes it difficult to separate from work. Which means that when it goes well it&#8217;s the best feeling ever, but when it doesn&#8217;t it&#8217;s difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marisa explained that the mixed reviews for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/amy-winehouse\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,amy-winehouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Winehouse<\/a> biopic Back to Black &#8211; in which she portrayed the late singer &#8211; were hard to stomach.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;That was definitely difficult to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I poured my heart and soul into it and took everything incredibly personally. What I&#8217;ve learned is to take both the positive and negative with a pinch of salt, rather than believing people when they say you&#8217;re amazing and believing people when they say you&#8217;re terrible. Neither of those are particularly helpful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMarisa plays the ambitious investment banker Yasmin Kara-Hanani in the acclaimed TV series Industry but admits that she wouldn&#8217;t go near the male-dominated trading floor in the real world after speaking to women who worked in finance in her research for the part.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;It was very much about being a woman on the trading floor and I think that rang true for a lot of women watching, because that&#8217;s the most competitive and most macho environment you could possibly be in.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be a place I&#8217;d like to spend my time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Marisa feels that Hollywood is a different environment &#8211; despite a &#8220;machismo&#8221; that still &#8220;runs riot&#8221; in the film industry.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Black Bag actress said: &#8220;A******** are few and far between in my industry. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;In my experience anyway. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s not true for plenty of people. There&#8217;s definitely a machismo that runs riot in Hollywood. It&#8217;s about the bottom line for the people in suits at the top and I still think they think male storylines will make money and big male actors will get bums on seats. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;So that does exist, but I don&#8217;t think the energy on set feels like a boys&#8217; club in the way it might have used to, for me personally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/marisa-abela-struggles-remove-emotion-acting-work-1435413.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 January 2026 Marisa Abela finds it difficult to separate emotions from her acting work. Marisa Abela puts everything into her acting jobs The 29-year-old actress fully invests herself into her roles and feels that her profession can be emotionally draining during difficult times. Marisa told The Sunday Times newspaper: &#8220;You&#8217;re putting yourself on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[459,460,13395],"class_list":{"0":"post-214676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-amy-winehouse","9":"tag-marisa-abela","10":"tag-yasmin-kara-hanani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}