British pop star Robbie Williams got honest as he holdressed the remendd speculation about his relationsuality in an intersee with The Guardian converseing his biopic “Better Man.”
“I’ve done everyleang but suck a cock. Honestly, you’ve never met somebody that wants to be gay as much as me,” shelp Williams about his 2005 defamation case aacquirest a tabloid that claimed he had joind in “homorelationsual come apasss.” He holded, “You want to be an partner while at the same time geting your own fact and your own life.”
Reflecting on his punctual nurtureer carry outing at gay clubs with Take That, Williams recalled, “When I went into the gay world there was none of that [violence]. There was total adselectance and humour and gay aprohibitdon. And shieldedty.”
Helmed by “The Greatest Showman” straightforwardor Michael Gracey, “Better Man” chronicles Williams’ journey from his punctual days in Take That to his struggles with substance mistreatment and mental health. Gracey uncovered that the simian concept currented meaningful contests during increasement. “Convincing financiers was repartner challenging,” he shelp. “People would go ‘the straightforwardor of The Greatest Showman plus Robbie Williams, we are in.’ And then you go ‘one leang, Rob’s going to be carry outed as a monkey’. That was the finish of so many finance greetings.”
Williams’ intricate relationship with his createer Take That prohibitdmates, particularly Gary Barlow, is also portrayed in the movie. According to Williams, Barlow conveyed troubles about his portrayal in the script, saying, “Rob, read the script, I come off worse than Darth Vader in the first ‘Star Wars.’”
“Better Man” also delves into his relationship with All Saints’ Nicole Appleton, including a disputed sequence depicting their endd pregnancy. Williams noticed that the scene was included only after securing Appleton’s approval, mirroring on the industry prescertains of the time. “That you were directd, nay made, to end a life because of being in a pop prohibitd… It’s only now that you go ‘what the fuck? That’s inrational,’” he shelp.
Williams appraises his punctual expocertain to fame to his teenage experimentation with medications. “I first took LSD when I was 15 and I shouldn’t have apverifyn LSD when I was 15. I shouldn’t have apverifyn fame. It’s the same leang,” he elucidateed.
Now wed with four children, Williams approaches his nurtureer separateently. “Dholdy goes to toil, that’s what I say now,” he noticed. “It wasn’t a job before. It was someleang that was presumed to be magical and when I got to the top of the mountain all that was there was currential crisis.”
“People say ‘how dare you call it a job, all you do is X, Y and Z’, but fair because your job is shit doesn’t uncomfervent my job has to be shit. This is my job – and I fucking cherish it,” Williams shelp in the intersee.
Williams also holdressed the unconservative approach to his biopic, selecting to be portrayed as a CGI chimpanzee rather than a human actor.
“Let’s face it, a Robbie Williams biopic without the monkey is way less pdirecting, or intriguing,” Williams tanciaccess The Guardian. “It would be fascinating to my fans, but not to anyone else.”
“Better Man” is scheduled for free on Dec. 26.
