Have you ever wondered what it’s like to watch a documentary about yourself? For Robbie Williams, being the subject of his own self-titled Netflix offering was a wig out.
It was also cathartic, yet trauma-inducing. After 25 years as a solo artist, Williams was forced to reflect on his younger self, primarily in his Take That heyday. “It was like watching a crash you were involved in, but in slow-mo,” he recently told The Times of the documentary. “[Making the documentary] was like enduring your mental illness at a very, very slow pace, over a very, very long time.”
As a member of one of the world’s biggest boy bands in the ’90s, Robbie was a celebrity of epic proportions. Princess Diana was the British group’s number-one fan, and Williams and his
