In the new Robbie Williams biopic about the UK musician’s rise to fame with Take That, his subsequent solo success as well as his prior drug addiction and mental health issues, the superstar singer/songwriter opted not to have any scenes removed from Better Man.
Though heavily involved in the making of the film, Williams refused to exercise his right to cut out unsavory moments and ruin the warts-and-all story.
In an interview with The Face in the UK, Robbies said:
“I guess (I had approval), but I didn’t need it.” “I know how other biographies have started off, and I know where they’ve ended up: sanitized versions of what was once a f**king incredible script. With me, I haven’t taken anything out. It’s: whatever’s good.”
After the interviewer mentioned the importance of depicting both the highs as well as the lows, the British-born singer replied, “Yeah. And the film does a good job at both.” “There’s bits in the film where I cringe at my jokes or what I say.” “I was like: ?’I don’t like that.’ ?’But you actually said that.’ ‘What about that?’ ?’Yeah, you actually said that, too.’ So loads of the script are my actual words. A lot of the narration, a lot of what the monkey says, are things that I’ve said and thought.”
The script for Better Man, in which Williams appears as a CGI monkey, was based on interviews he gave director Michael Gracey and his co-writers Simon Gleeson and Oliver Cole.
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Author: Al Denté
Photo: Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom