Robbie Williams Discovered His Inner Monkey for New Biopic

Former Take That heartthrob Robbie Williams gets the biopic treatment in Better Man (in theaters now), which uses his songs and newly recorded vocals to tell his life story.

- JACK SMART

But the British boy bander turned solo superstar signed off on director Michael Gracey’s certifiably bananas twist: Williams, 50, is portrayed as a computer-animated chimpanzee onscreen. There’s nothing semiautobiographical about the movie musical, he says. “It’s biographical-biographical.”