Robbie Williams wants to make Better Man 2 despite film bombing in USA

Robbie Williams wants to ape his role in Better Man, by being turned into a chimp again for a sequel.

The Take That star, 50, says he has so much content that another film could be on the cards. Robbie told: “There is so much that didn’t make the movie. Only because we couldn’t fit it in – not because I was too embarrassed or ashamed to put it in… many stories. It would have had to be a five-hour film to fit everything in. And hopefully it does good and there is a Better Man 2.” Better Man has taken £10million globally, although mostly in the UK.

It did not make a big splash on its first weekend in the US, up against Hollywood heavyweights such as Gladiator II and Wicked, but it scored 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics and 94% with audiences. Its number Forbidden Road was nominated for the Golden Globe’s best song.

Initially Robbie did not want a CGI chimp to be the lead in the biopic. He told Aussie DJ Sean Brown: “I am an actor. I’ve acted at being a pop star for the last 30-plus years. It is what I do.”

The biopic is about Stoke-born Robbie’s life until 2003 – the year he played three huge gigs at Knebworth to annoy Oasis, who only did two. Director Michael Gracey, who made The Greatest Showman, said a CGI chimp depicts Robbie because he always “felt like a performing monkey”.

The film also shows Robbie’s dark days of drug use and mental health battle. Robbie says his daughter Teddy, 12, “sneaked in” to a screening of the biopic – but it hasn’t put her off going into showbiz. He said: “She’s the child that wants to be famous the most – way more than I did. It’s terrifying. I tried to explain to her, ‘It doesn’t fix you’. But she won’t listen to me, of course. After the film, she was like, ‘Daddy, can I walk around the garden with you?’ And she held my hand and said, ‘I get it’.”

Robbie, who had hits with songs such as Angels, Come Undone and Rock DJ, also has son Charlie, 10, daughter Coco, six, and four-year-old son Beau with wife Ayda Field.

Robbie’s dream of bagging an Oscar was dashed after his song was disqualified for sounding too much like another tune. Forbidden Road was shortlisted earlier this week for Best Original Song. But Academy Award bosses have since ruled it out of contention. They said it sounds too similar to I Got a Name from 1973 film, The Last American Hero. A letter sent out to Oscar voters in the music category said Robbie’s track “incorporates material from an existing song that was not written for the film” so it has been deemed ineligible for the Oscar.

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