American Xennials, do you know who Robbie Williams is?

As other comments have said, he felt like a monkey for the man. And in many respects, he was (like so many others before and after him). But it's more than that to me. I only liked Rock DJ and didn't know much more than that until the doc came out (titled Robbie Williams) and saw what he went through, being talented but young and not prepared or the type of person who does well under the pressures that fame like that brings people (like Chris Farley, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, the list goes on and on). He had the choice to have someone else play him, but would that be accurate enough to tell his story properly? Probably not. He could do a deaging, but wasn't his likeness part of what was stolen from him all that time ago in a way? His story is about getting away from that corporate abuse. He can't play himself through time as himself now, so what to do? What could represent him the way he wants to be in his way and on his terms? He'll be the ape monkey that they made sing and dance all that time ago, but take it back from them and make it his own. That seems best. I respect his decision a lot actually and mark my words - it's the beginning of a new way to tell stories that won't end with this movie. He's ended and started something at the same time that I think may make a mark on history more than anything else he's ever done. And I'm here for it.