‘But who is Robbie Williams?’: What’s up with the international star being a nobody in the United States?
Biopic ‘Better Man’ opened to rave reviews but is turning out to be a box-office disaster — is its protagonist’s fate to be a pop idol in Europe, Asia and Australia but an unknown in the world’s largest market?
Robbie Williams (Stoke-on-Trent, England, 50 years old) is a star who nearly nobody knows about in the United States. Such is the short and sweet biography of the singer, who first rose to fame in the boy band Take That and went on to become one of history’s most successful solo artists, with nearly 60 million albums sold all over the world — except in the United States. The release of Better Man, a bizarre biopic in which he is played by a monkey, was his opportunity to put an end to this lopsided panorama. But for the moment, it doesn’t seem to be working.
