Robbie Williams has revealed amendments were made to the script of his new semi-autobiographical film Better Man after former bandmate Gary Barlow felt he “came off worse than Darth Vader in Star Wars”. The musical film is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, fall and return of British musician Williams.
Williams, 50, rose to fame in Take That alongside Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange before he left the group in 1995 in the middle of their Nobody Else world tour. Appearing on the New Year’s Eve episode of The Graham Norton Show, he said: “I sent the first script to Gary Barlow and he phoned me up – we have a great relationship now – and said ‘Rob, I come off worse than Darth Vader in Star Wars’, so we made amendments.
“When you talk about my past it happens to be contentious, and I was a different person then. “The film brings all that up again so it’s super odd and I can understand how it could be hard for Gary. “As for the other people I throw under the bus I don’t care.”.
During their time in Take That together, the group became one of Britain’s biggest boybands in the 1990s, evoking hysteria reminiscent of The Beatles. The band notched up a host of number one hits and sold millions of albums in the 1990s, but tensions began to show between Barlow, seen as the serious songwriter of the group, and Williams, the rebellious joker.
