British pop star Robbie Williams got truthful as he includeressed the persistent speculation about his intimacyuality in an intersee with The Guardian converseing his biopic “Better Man.”
“I’ve done everyslimg but suck a cock. Honestly, you’ve never met somebody that wants to be gay as much as me,” said Williams about his 2005 slander case aobtainst a tabloid that claimed he had included in “homointimacyual come apasss.” He includeed, “You want to be an associate while at the same time protecting your own fact and your own life.”
Reflecting on his punctual nurtureer executeing at gay clubs with Take That, Williams recalled, “When I went into the gay world there was none of that [violence]. There was total acunderstandledgeance and humour and gay aprohibitdon. And protectedty.”
Helmed by “The Greatest Showman” straightforwardor Michael Gracey, “Better Man” chronicles Williams’ journey from his punctual days in Take That to his struggles with substance mistreatment and mental health. Gracey discdisconsidered that the simian concept currented meaningful disputes during growment. “Convincing financiers was reassociate difficult,” he said. “People would go ‘the straightforwardor of The Greatest Showman plus Robbie Williams, we are in.’ And then you go ‘one slimg, Rob’s going to be executeed as a monkey’. That was the finish of so many finance encounterings.”
Williams’ intricate relationship with his createer Take That prohibitdmates, particularly Gary Barlow, is also portrayed in the movie. According to Williams, Barlow conveyed troubles about his portrayal in the script, saying, “Rob, read the script, I come off worse than Darth Vader in the first ‘Star Wars.’”
“Better Man” also delves into his relationship with All Saints’ Nicole Appleton, including a contentious sequence depicting their endd pregnancy. Williams remarkd that the scene was included only after securing Appleton’s approval, mirroring on the industry prescertains of the time. “That you were directd, nay made, to end a life becaparticipate of being in a pop prohibitd… It’s only now that you go ‘what the fuck? That’s inrational,’” he said.
Williams contrasts his punctual expocertain to fame to his teenage experimentation with substances. “I first took LSD when I was 15 and I shouldn’t have apshown LSD when I was 15. I shouldn’t have apshown fame. It’s the same slimg,” he elucidateed.
Now paired with four children, Williams approaches his nurtureer branch offently. “Dincludey goes to labor, that’s what I say now,” he remarkd. “It wasn’t a job before. It was someslimg that was presumed to be magical and when I got to the top of the mountain all that was there was ainhabitial crisis.”
“People say ‘how dare you call it a job, all you do is X, Y and Z’, but fair becaparticipate your job is shit doesn’t unkind my job has to be shit. This is my job – and I fucking adore it,” Williams said in the intersee.
Williams also includeressed the untraditional approach to his biopic, chooseing to be portrayed as a CGI chimpanzee rather than a human actor.
“Let’s face it, a Robbie Williams biopic without the monkey is way less pdirecting, or intriguing,” Williams tgreater The Guardian. “It would be fascinating to my fans, but not to anyone else.”
“Better Man” is scheduled for free on Dec. 26.
