David Beckham Says He Didn’t Enjoy Making Netflix Doc, Talks Victoria Beckham Series: “No One Sees the Amount of Work She Does”
“I can’t lie, it worried me, it made me nervous, it made Victoria nervous,” Beckham said about the Emmy-winning series ‘Beckham’ at The Royal Television Society’s London Convention on Tuesday.
Former soccer star and style icon David Beckham graced a London industry conference stage to discuss how nervous he was to film his Emmy-winning documentary Beckham and gush over his wife.
He began by gifting Jane Featherstone, founder and co-CCO of production company Sister Pictures, a pot of marmalade. “I made this for our 25th wedding anniversary, this label,” Beckham said, referencing his partner, ex-Spice Girl Victoria, so this one is called ‘Sticky Vicky’.”
“I had to feel uncomfortable to make the documentary that we made,” he began on the doc, which took audiences through his career as a frenzied life in the spotlight as a footballer for Manchester United and a highly-publicized relationship with Victoria. Beckham was met with critical acclaim when it dropped on Netflix.
“It was quite emotional,” watching it at the premiere, Beckham said. “It was one of those things I knew if I was gonna make it, I was gonna make it once… It was really difficult,” he said of making the series. “It took me a long time to come to terms with the fact I was going to make it but there was a few reasons why we wanted to make it. Through the pandemic, that’s when documentaries really exploded. It was coming up to the 10-year anniversary of my retirement and I thought: ‘Maybe this is the right time.’”
