While Gary Barlow has joked it was a “blunder” by producers to not check out his appearing chops in Take That’s new movie, in all seriousness the singer hopes Greatest Days’ cinematic success shall be in “turning a mirror” on their followers.

Speaking to Sky News, with fake upset, he joked that not casting himself as a number one man was “a huge blunder, in my opinion, but there you go – we go on, we go on!”

“We’ve got this brilliant audience and, you know, the one thing for us that was so important with [first] the musical, and the movie, was to turn a mirror on the audience and make it about them and how important they are within what we do.”

Directed by Coky Giedroyc with Tim Firth adapting his personal stage present, comic Aisling Bea leads the solid with the story specializing in a die-hard Take That fan who – 25 years on from her teenage crush – has to spherical up her old skool pals after profitable the possibility to see the band in live performance in Athens.

Think nineties nostalgia meets Mama Mia-esque jukebox musical.

While the solid clearly had a blast breaking into music, Bea maintains it was a gruelling shoot.

“On Never Forget we did the conga 30 times down the road,” she explains. “That scene took two or three days of rehearsals… We hope it seems straightforward, nevertheless it by no means really is behind the scenes.

“That I still feel emotionally connected to that song, I feel, is a testament to their writing, and their music.”

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How was it to be the lusted-after well-known one?

From fantasies of marrying the boys via to the ritual recording of Top of the Pops, whereas – for followers – the movie affords flashbacks to when following the band was for a lot of an all-consuming teenage obsession, how was it to be the lusted-after well-known one wanting down from the bed room poster?

“Honestly? It was absolutely terrific,” Barlow admits.

“They were great years…we were going on this incredible journey as five strangers really.

“We had been put collectively by a supervisor, off we went into the world, and inside a yr we had been travelling round to all these loopy international locations simply having the time of our lives. And that is the way it felt.

“That’s how I remember the nineties being, you know – noise, chaos, screaming and it was just terrific.”

Greatest Days is out in cinemas on 16 June.