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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Sam Wolfson

‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them

a man in a leopard print coat next to a poster with a monkey on it
The part of Robbie Williams in A Better Man is played by a CGI chimpanzee and voiced by the real Williams. Photograph: John Nacion/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures

Despite the terrible box office performance, and movie theatres cancelling screenings, Americans are at least talking about the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man.

“I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it … it makes me angry and I don’t know why!” complains TikToker Jasmine Darya, one of thousands posting similar videos. Others claim they have been “gaslit” into believing he’s a huge star, or that the film is the result of “the Mandela effect”, a false memory shared by a large group of people. “I just found out Robbie Williams is real,” says one angry poster.

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