Why is Robbie Williams an ape in his biopic? Better Man’s director explains all

Why is Robbie Williams an ape in his biopic? Better Man’s director explains allSource: The Independent

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00:00Portraying Eamon as an ape was based on, we did a whole series of interviews over the

00:05course of a year and a half and when I listened back to those interviews he would quite often

00:09say you know I was just up the back performing like a monkey or they would just drag me up

00:14on stage to perform like a monkey and he said it enough times that I was like there is definitely

00:17something to the way that Rob sees himself as a performing monkey and then when I went

00:22back to his story whether he's trying to be you know a tough kid in Stoke-on-Trent, whether

00:28he wants his dad to look at him the same way he looks at Sinatra, you do realize that his

00:33whole life he's been performing and so the idea of portraying him as a sort of performing

00:38monkey I just felt was really creatively exciting.