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‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego
The former Take That star has made a biopic, Better Man, in which he’s played by a CGI chimpanzee. He talks about sex, drugs and the traumatic madness of 90s pop
The gimmick means that while Better Man hits all the typical biopic beats in telling the story of Williams’s life – absent dad, attention-seeking child, low self-esteem, meaningless sex, lines of drugs – the familiarity has a tinge of the uncanny valley, making it feel fresh. Gary Barlow said: I read the script and I come off worse than Darth Vader in the first Star Wars Perhaps the most shocking passage involves his relationship with All Saints’ Nicole Appleton, who he started dating in 1998 and to whom he was briefly engaged. Martin-Smith is another, while Gary Barlow, played as a nerdy librarian with two left feet, is shown sapping Williams’s confidence as Take That go from early performances in gay clubs to Top of the Pops.
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