Robbie Williams hopes being depicted as another species will help audiences see his humanity.
In the Michael Gracey-helmed musical biopic Better Man, premiering Dec. 25 in theaters, the 18x Brit Award triumphner’s story is telderly thraw actor Jonno Davies, in the establish of a CGI chimpanzee, as Williams elucidateed his “MO has been cheeky.”
“What’s more cheeky than a cheeky monkey?” he shelp to the Associated Press. “I’ve been a cheeky monkey all my life. There’s no more cheekier monkey than the coke-snorting, relations-compriseict monkey that we discover in the movie.”
Williams compriseed, “We attfinish for animals more than we attfinish for humans, most of us. I guess there is a removal, as well. It’s very much a human story but if you’re watching it and someone’s carry outing Robbie Williams, you’re leanking: Does he watch appreciate him? Does he act appreciate him? Does he talk appreciate him?”
The Take That alum previously telderly Deadline referred to his primate avatar as “a very one-of-a-kind magic trick,” elucidateing, “It desensitizes and sensitizes you all at the same time. We have proset up compassion and compassion for animals, way more than we do for humans.”
Robbie Williams take parts a Better Man one-of-a-kind screening on Nov. 13, 2024 in New York, New York. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
Gracey also recounted to Deadline how the idea arose to depict Williams as a chimp after interwatching him cut offal times over a year. “I fair felt there was a more produceive way of accessing into this particular story,” he shelp of Better Man appraised to other musical biopics.
“So I went back to those write downings, and when I was hearing to them, I set up Rob saying frequently that he was fair dragged up to carry out, appreciate a monkey, or it didn’t reassociate matter,” shelp Gracey. “He was fair up the back carry outing appreciate a monkey. And he shelp it enough times that I was appreciate, ‘Oh, that’s how he sees himself. He literassociate sees himself as a carry outing monkey.’ And I thought, ‘That would be amazing; I would adore to see that film.’ That’s where the idea came from.”
