David Beckham joined director Fisher Stevens, producer Josh Bitsek and editor Michael Hart at an Emmys For Your Consideration event Sunday night for his documentary, as the soccer star shared his viral “be honest” moment. revealed some behind-the-scenes details.
Beckham quickly became a meme — and the subject of a Super Bowl commercial — when, in the documentary, he interrupts Victoria Beckham mid-interview as she talks about a modest upbringing.
“It was Victoria’s first day of filming, and she was sitting there in the lounge, looking great. She had dogs running in and out and Fisher thought I’d left the house, but I’d gone to the office. First was in the kitchen making coffee,” Beckham recalled. “I put the headphone set on, and all of a sudden I heard my wife go, ‘Okay, we’re on the ground.’ And I was like, ‘No, no, no.’ As soon as I heard him say, ‘We’re working class,’ I stuck my head in and I was like, ‘Be honest,'” noting that at the time, Stevens was “very angry with me about it. ”
Stevens explained that they “scheduled the interview with Victoria so that David was out of the loop and she could say what she wanted, and then he came up and I was quite upset. I It was like, ‘Get it out of here’, but it actually turned out brilliant,” admitted the filmmaker. “It worked. Thank God the cameraman caught David, and then to Michael, I said, ‘I think we have gold.’
During the conversation at Netflix’s Todham Theater in Hollywood, Beckham reflected on why the time was right for the four-episode docuseries, which chronicles his long football career and life in the public eye. Follows.
“In all honesty, when I retired 10 years ago, some of my friends, family, started asking me about a documentary. And I just told them that I’m just looking back. Not ready,” he explained, and when asked again several years later, he decided to bide his time on the 10-year anniversary of his retirement. “Plenty of time for me to come to terms with doing it, to be honest felt It wasn’t something I thought I wanted to do. And even a few years later, I still question, did I want to do it?” Stevens said. “I think he questioned it while we were doing it,” which the star confirmed. .
When asked if there was anything he wouldn’t let the cameras film, Beckham replied, “I always told Fisher I’m only going to do it once and I’m going to do it right. Going. Nothing is off the table and whatever you want to ask me, we’re going to talk about it and we’ll get there eventually. He also admitted that he “is didn’t enjoy the process” and often tried to get out of his long filming sessions with Stevens, recalling, “Every time we sat down for those five hours, I just wanted to go on for another five hours. There was a need. Hours of being on my own. Because it was so hard, so hard to talk about and so uncomfortable – not just the uncomfortable parts.
He admitted that the documentary served as a form of therapy for him, and made him feel better about some of the more emotional moments of his career, including leaving Manchester United and the red card during the 1998 World Cup. Includes being. The therapy extended beyond her, to her friends and family.
“The reason I wanted to do a documentary is because I wanted something for my family to all be in one place, to celebrate what we’ve all been through together. Because my parents, my grandparents , my sisters, my friends, [they’ve] Everyone’s been through it and I didn’t realize how it affected them all until I saw them talk about it in the documentary,” added Beckham. “So for me it felt better in a weird way, that they could actually talk about it.”
He also revealed that he first watched documentaries on an iPad in bed with Victoria “and we laughed, we cried.” The star also noted that at the start of the project, Victoria asked him to make a documentary about more than just football, and that he was inspired by Michael Jordan’s documentary. “I remember sitting there and saying to Victoria, ‘I’m watching this documentary about basketball tonight, Michael Jordan, and his name is,’ and she was like, ‘Ah,’ ” he recalled. “But she saw it and she was like, ‘Oh my God, when’s the next one? When’s the next one?’ And he said, ‘That’s what we need.’
At the end of the talk, Beckham expressed his appreciation to the audience for the documentary’s success, saying, “It’s something that was very personal to me and my family and the fact that people loved it so much. As much as everyone loves it, it makes us all feel very proud and emotional that we’ve made something that makes people happy, dancing, cooking, all that stuff.”
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