Lee Sales

And later on, when he becomes super out of control, you know, on all sorts of weird drugs, he's on, you know, he's in great personal distress.

He actually turns into kind of like an ape.

Like he's, it's a weirdly effective device.

Wow, how interesting.

I know, I know.

And also, and this is always a bit of a civilising effect on a film, I suppose, they clearly spent a literal metric fuckton of money on it.

So there's like great choreography, there's musical numbers, there's songs of his threaded through the film.

And it is pretty brutal.

Like, it's not really a sugar-coated version.

There are parts where he's, like, an absolute jerk to people.

And at that time, the monkey gets all sort of, like, rattled and kind of, you know, open-pored and just is a beast, you know.

And it's a really kind of... Sorry, I may be making no sense here, but, like, I...

thought it's not a bad way of describing how a needy, needy kid who's just sort of like looking for love in all the wrong places

turns that need for attention and adulation and love kind of onto the world and sucks as much of it as he can in and he's charismatic and he's handsome and he's a good dancer and all of that and it's still not enough and then he turns to all drugs and vodka and whatever and he's like this sort of beast it's kind of worked anyway well is it so is it Robbie Williams voice coming out of the monkey

No, I think it's an actor.

Like they're all actors.

I assume he probably sang the numbers, not sure.

Yeah.

I guess so, yeah.

I can't help you on that particular point.