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Michael Gracey On Telling Singer Robbie Williams’ Life Story As Musical With A Most Unusual Twist
Michael Gracey On Telling Singer Robbie Williams' Life Story In Musical With twist
He’s slim and has the healthy look of one who has put the bad boy days behind him — “still naughty, just sober.” He felt not only has the movie accurately captured his crazy journey, but that it might succeed enough that a receptive US audience might propel the kind of same that has been his reality since teens, in places like the UK and Australia, where he still cannot go to a mall or walk down the street without being mobbed. Gracey provided the song and dance and storytelling propulsion, with show stopping musical numbers that included one on Regent Street with hundreds of dancers set against the backdrop of those magnificent white buildings. I mean, it’s hard enough for him to wrap his head around a singing and dancing monkey version of himself, let alone seeing a guy covered in dots and a gray wetsuit and a camera sticking out the front of their face.
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