Robbie Williams was the inspiration for The Greatest Showman, says director Michael Gracey

Director Michael Gracey says Robbie Williams was the inspiration for The Greatest Showman .

The film stars Hugh Jackman as the ringleader at the center of the movie.

Williams is the subject of a biopic that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday .

The biopic traces Williams ’ childhood days, tough family life, rise to fame in the boy band Take That.

Williams : "I want everything that I do from here on in to be slightly unusual, so that fits that narrative" Gracey: "As humans, we care more for animals than we do for humans. So the audience is probably going to have more empathy for me as a monkey than they would've done for me".

There's levels of fame, and there's levels that aren't as quite lucrative, but really manageable.

And then there's really fucking biggest artists in the world that is completely unmanageable. And you can be overwhelmed by it, of course, which I did. And I think once my first child arrived and it wasn't about me anymore, that's when my whole relationship with fame changed.