At first glance, the American actor and filmmaker Fisher Stevens wasn’t the obvious choice to helm the four-part Netflix documentary series about English soccer great David Beckham. Even Stevens himself shares that view.
“When they first called me, my response was …’why me for David Beckham?’” the 59-year-old said to CNN Sport’s Don Riddell. “I didn’t know his story like you guys in the UK.” Turns out that looks can be deceiving, as the subject of Stevens’s lens knows all too well. The eponymously titled “Beckham” charts the former England captain’s remarkable rise .
Some of the key themes which emerge in “Beckham” are his relationships with the influential men in his life – his dad, Ted, but also the imposing Ferguson. The Scot nurtured Beckham in the 1990’s, but their relationship soured at United after Beckham’s celebrity reached global status. The pair talk about the infamous boot-kicking incident – when an enraged Ferguson kicked a boot in the changing room hitting Beckham above the eye - and Beckham’s subsequent sale to Real Madrid in 2003.
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