Robin Williams: Unknown Facts About the Comedy Legend

Showing Restraint

Williams had to really restrain himself from improvising during the performance. “You can do physical things, but you don’t ad-lib [Samuel] Beckett, just like you don’t riff Beethoven,” he said. Williams went on to work with director Mike Nichols again in 1996 film The Birdcage.

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