“I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep,” David Beckham admits to the cameras. This is Beckham, the four-episode documentary series that Netflix has in store to satisfy the curiosity of soccer fans and pop culture lovers. If the athlete and his wife Victoria always tried to maintain his privacy, even being two of the most persecuted people on the planet, now he wants to tell his version of the story of his life.
“I was never a good student because all I wanted was to play soccer,” he explains. From the beginnings of his childhood, the images aim to narrate his entire sporting career, his conversion into a star that went beyond sports, the beginnings of his love affair with the Spice Girl and, in addition, open up about the darkest stages as a footballer.
Behind the cameras, the Beckhams have director Fisher Stevens, Oscar winner for the documentary The Cove and who worked on the Netflix phenomenon Tiger King, and John Battsek, the Emmy-winning producer of Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden. They had access to the statements of David and Victoria, their family, their friends and the player’s teammates.
The release date? On October 4th. And the trailer? Next.
