Robbie Williams has revealed the response that Gary Barlow needed to his new biopic, Higher Man.
The semi-autobiographical movie, directed and co-writtten by Michael Gracey (The Biggest Showman), is due for launch within the UK on Boxing Day (December 26) and in choose US cinemas on Christmas Day (December 25). In it, the singer is depicted as a CGI monkey, and the movie tells the story of his life and profession – from his early days in childhood to his first style of success with boyband Take That.
Now, Williams has opened up about his previous feud with former bandmate Gary Barlow, and shared his blunt response to how he’s depicted in Higher Man.
After the Take That frontman obtained an early have a look at the biopic, Williams recalled how he obtained a cellphone name from Barlow, saying that the challenge made him seem like a Hollywood supervillain.
“We had a fractious relationship. Within the script, I converse how I assumed again then, which wasn’t complimentary to Gaz, and we despatched him the script,” Williams stated (by way of Day by day Mail). “He rang me and, he’s a grown-up and there was no effing or pointing fingers, and he was like, ‘Rob, I come off worse than Darth Vader within the first half.’”
In keeping with the outlet, the cellphone name referring to the long-lasting Star Wars villain pressured Williams to mellow out the portrayal of Barlow within the last edits.
He additionally spoke on the Deadline press screening for the movie in Los Angeles and stated that he was meant to be the principle villain within the movie.
“I’m fairly blissful to be the principle villain on this film,” he stated (by way of Day by day Mail). “There have been many villains on this film till we legally couldn’t have many villains on this film. And now the one villain on this film is me.”
The previous feud between the 2 stems again to their time in Take That within the ‘90s, and noticed Williams model his bandmate a “clueless wanker” earlier than quitting the band in 1995.
Williams went on to embark on a vastly profitable solo profession, earlier than they made peace in 2009 and had a Take That comeback in 2010.
Talking in a current BBC Two documentary, Boyband Without end, Williams additionally mirrored on the reunion, and stated that whereas they’re each “mates now and I really like him, and our relationship is 95 per cent healed”, there’ll “at all times be a scar”.
The feedback additionally observe Williams’ dialogue of Barlow in his 2023 Netflix documentary, Robbie Williams, which noticed him admit he felt “resentful” in direction of his bandmate in Take That’s early profession.
“It appeared like there was one particular person being managed in Take That, and it was Gary Barlow. It was all geared round him and, as younger particular person, I’d have been jealous of that. I suppose a number of me resented him,” he stated.
On the time, Williams additionally revealed the explanation why he didn’t seek the advice of Barlow in regards to the documentary, saying: “Legally I didn’t must.”
Extra just lately, Williams wrote an open letter to Take That’s ex-manager Nigel Martin-Smith, objecting to claims Martin-Smith made about his drug habit within the aforementioned BBC Two documentary.
“My response to the warped world that surrounded me is solely my very own. How I selected to self-medicate is and was one thing that I can be monitoring and coping with for the entire of my life,” he stated. “I simply obtained there faster as a result of having the funds whereas attempting in useless to counteract the turbulence of pop stardom’s matrix-bending washer.”
In different Robbie Williams information, forward of the Higher Man launch, he opened up about his previous relationship with Nicole Appleton, admitting he feels a “sense of disgrace” for being an “fool boyfriend”, and in addition shared the soundtrack for Higher Man alongside a brand new single, ‘Forbidden Street’.
As for Gary Barlow, the singer-songwriter just lately shared particulars of a brand new ‘Songbook’ tour, set to move to the UK and Eire subsequent yr. Go to right here for tickets.
