The 1991 role Robin Williams compared to an exorcism: “I’m not trying to work something out”It’s not always the best idea to mix professional work with personal catharsis, and you can’t really say it did the trick for Robin Williams, either, based on the career choices he made in the following years. Like virtually every other star who specialises in the genre, Williams had a type. However, at one point, he sounded as though he was done with it, after he compared his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1991 fantasy favourite, Hook, to an exorcism. However, even though “exorcism” was the word that he used, when it was weaponised against him in a 1998 interview, Williams went on the defensive. “I’m not trying to work out something therapeutic in my films,” he insisted.