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An exclusive profile of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. It took a year and a half to get permission to film the lavish dance sequence on Regent Street in London over four nights because it is actually owned by the British royal family. Two nights before the planned shoot, after spending a whole week in the rehearsal studio where they filmed the street, Queen Elizabeth II died and the shoot had to be postponed. Everyone still had to be paid, including stores and crew, and production insurance did not cover losses due to the monarch’s death, so the producers had to raise additional funds to shoot the sequence, which was shot five months later. The title character Robbie Williams is portrayed as a chimpanzee. Robbie Williams is not actually a chimp.
