Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man”
Script changes for Take That colleagues
After complaints from his Take That colleague Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams revised the script for his biopic “Better Man”.
On February 13, 2024, pop scandal noodle Robbie Williams celebrated his 50th birthday, and just a few months later his experimental film biography “Better Man – The Robbie Williams Story” celebrated its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. In the biopic realized by director Michael Gracey, the British singer is portrayed throughout as a computer-generated monkey, while all other protagonists, especially his fellow members of the cult boy band Take That, are portrayed by actors as humans.
Robbie Williams gave more detailed information about the process of creating this extraordinary film biography in an edition of the British “Graham Norton Show”, which will be shown on New Year’s Eve. He revealed that he had taken the complaints of his bandmate and long-time archenemy Gary Barlow (53) into account when developing the script.
“Rob, I come across as worse than Darth Vader in Star Wars”
“I sent the first script to Gary Barlow and he called me,” Williams said on the show. The bandmate protested massively against this first version of the script and said “Rob, I come across as worse than Darth Vader in Star Wars.” He then made further changes to the script together with the director, which made Barlow appear in a slightly better light. However, he kept to himself what exactly had been changed and only emphasized that he now had a “great relationship” with his Take That colleague again.
Reconciliation with Barlow after years of enmity
Robbie Williams had a falling out with the band’s frontman Barlow in 1995 and left Take That in a dispute to start an extremely successful solo career. A reconciliation only took place in 2009, and Williams returned as an official member of the band in 2010.
“When you talk about my past, it is often controversial, and I was a different person back then,” emphasized the superstar on the TV show. “The film brings it all back up, so it’s super strange and I can understand it might be hard for Gary.” As for the other people he “pushes in front of the bus” in the biopic, he doesn’t really care what their opinion is.
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