Singer Robbie Williams is played by a CGI monkey in an emotional new trailer for The Greatest Showman director’s musical biopic with a stellar Rotten Tomatoes score

A new trailer for Better Man, a unique semi-autobiographical film about singer Robbie Williams, has arrived – and we’d be lying if we said it didn’t make us tear up a little.

In the short clip, which can be seen below, we see more of Williams as a child – and in this case, the child is a baby CGI monkey with big eyes and the most heartbreaking little face. The new trailer spends a little more time on Robbie’s parents and his childhood dreams of becoming a big star, before moving into his time in pop group Take That and later deciding to embark on a solo career.