“Better Man”, the musical biographical film, is directed by Michael Gracey and opens on December 25 in theaters throughout the world.
Robbie Williams he believes that being represented as another species can help the public see his humanity. In the musical biographical film directed by Michael Gracey, Better Manwhich opens on December 25 in theaters around the world, the story of the 18-time Brit Award winner is told by the actor Jonno Daviesin the form of a CGI chimpanzee, while Williams explained that his “mods have been offensive”.
“What’s more cheeky than a cheeky monkey?” he told the Associated Press. “I’ve been a cheeky monkey all my life. There is no monkey more shameless than the sex-addicted, cocaine-snorting monkey we meet in the film.”
Williams added: “Most of us care more about animals than humans. I guess there’s a deletion too. It’s a very human story, but if you’re watching it and someone is playing Robbie Williams, you’re thinking: Does he look like him? Do you act like him? Do you talk like him?”.
In previous statements to the Deadline portal, the singer referred to his primate version as “a very special magic trick”, explaining: “It desensitizes you and sensitizes you all at the same time. We have a deep empathy and compassion for animals, much more than by humans.”
The director of Better Man and the idea of using a “monkey” as the protagonist
Gracey also told Deadline how the idea to portray Williams as a chimpanzee came about after interviewing him several times over the course of a year. “I felt like there was a more creative way to get into this particular story.”said of Better Man compared to other musical biopics.
“I listened to those recordings again and, as I listened to them, I found that Rob often said that he had been dragged into acting like a monkey or that it didn’t matter,” Gracey said. “He was just in the back acting like a monkey. And he said it so many times that I thought, ‘Oh, that’s how he sees himself. He literally sees himself as an acting monkey.’ And I thought, ‘That would be amazing; I would love to see that movie.’ “That’s where the idea came from.”
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