This new film showing Robbie as a CGI chimp is all about his inner world - but cathartic as it is, he's not entirely free

It's 2001 and nine-year-old Jonno Davies is standing in the crowd as Robbie Williams entertains 65,000 people at the Milton Keynes Bowl. "He was just this symbol of cool, and that stuck with me for a long

"Better Man," in theaters Wednesday, turns musician biopics on their head in a way completely befitting of subject Robbie Williams.

It sounds like a bad joke. Robbie Williams, one of the best-selling music artists on the planet, portrayed as an all-singing, all-dancing chimpanzee in his very own rock biopic? Pull the other one, mate.

The new movie from The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey is based on the rise, fall and resurgence of Robbie Williams. But while you'll hear Williams in the movie, he's portrayed by a chimpanzee, played in motion-capture by Jonno Davies.

Robbie Williams, Take That’s cheeky chappie-turned-tabloid fodder solo phenomenon, described himself as a performing monkey, prancing and preening in front of the cameras and seeking the approval of the audience (or at least a banana or two).

Robbie Williams had no interest in sanitising his life story for his new biopic Better Man. The new biopic charts the Rock DJ singer's rise to fame with Take That and his phenomenal solo career as well as the low points in his life,