Inside the wild Robbie Williams biopic: ‘It’s sad seeing the monkey do cocaine’
Inside the wild Robbie Williams biopic: ‘It’s sad seeing the monkey do cocaine’ https://t.co/jxD0KFmG9Y pic.twitter.com/7rdz8U7gW8
- The Independent (@Independent) December 22, 2024
Michael Gracey’s film ‘Better Man’ depicts Robbie Williams as a chimpanzee.
“I think you feel more for an animal suffering than you do a human,” Gracey says. “There’s nothing glamorous about a monkey doing cocaine. It’s actually a bit sad and uncomfortable. You’re just like… ‘I don’t want to see him doing that’.”
“I wouldn’t have done it without the monkey,” Gracey says (in the world of Better Man, monkeys and chimps are interchangeable). “For me, the monkey was the only reason to do it.”
“When a famous person walks into a room, we can’t help but look at them,” he says. “It doesn’t matter if they’re even talking or not, we’re just transfixed by that person. And that’s why it works so well that he’s a monkey. Even in scenes where Robbie’s not talking, you find yourself just staring at him - oh my god, it’s a monkey! And that? That’s what it’s like to be famous.”