lip sync

The filmmaking team, including music producer Giles Martin and music supervisor Iain Cooke, had backup plans in place, including having the lead lip-sync with Winehouse’s actual vocals.

At first, Taylor-Johnson simply wanted Abela to be able to lip-sync Winehouse’s songs with the correct facial movements.

As Abela, who also learned guitar and worked with movement and dialect coaches, immersed herself more fully into the role, she understood there would be an “emotional disconnect,” she says, if she opted to lip-sync.

She made it all the way to the finale, but lost to Nymphia Wind in the final lip-sync battle.

Though she struggled in the challenges, Jorgeous earned the distinction of being her season’s “lip-sync assassin,” winning four out of five stay-or-sashay-away face-offs.