The British pop star Robbie Williams has always felt like a performing monkey.

In the coming musical biopic Better Man, the character of Robbie Williams is a computer-generated chimp, though everyone else around him is human.

For the chimp's face, the eyes of the actual pop star were used.

And so from the first frame of the film to the last, Williams is portrayed by a monkey, first as a young childlike one with furry paws and outsized ears who doesn't fit in at school and is desperate for the approval of his showman father; then as a rebellious boy-band monkey with dyed blond hair (just on his head) and a penchant for copious amounts of cocaine and alcohol; and finally as an adult monkey desperately trying to fight off his demons. [source]

"So, as I said, Robbie's Home! began airing in the fall of '96 and it was an immediate hit. Ratings were huge. Pretty good reviews, and then one day, we're shooting an episode in season two entitled 'Robbie's Birthday.' And, boom. Robbie just hit his limit. It was six minutes and 13 seconds of havoc. The network tried to bury it, but it was a spectacle. People are just obsessed."

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