Beckham series makes it clear that fame is as traumatic as it is absurd
David Beckham, the subject of a new Netflix series, and 'Posh Spice' Victoria Adams in the early days of their relationship. Photograph: Netflixthat a Madrid hospital has scheduled her C-section for Monday. Alas, that’s not the best timing for him – he has a photo shoot lined up with Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé.
But Stevens gets it, and shares it, so Victoria’s memory of lying there, “pissed off” after being shown a newspaper with a “gorgeous picture” of her husband flanked by Lopez and Beyoncé, is deliciously intercut with contemporaneous footage of David beaming away, first at the shoot, then at a press conference announcing the arrival of another beautiful son.
Watching the opening scenes of the director wandering around garden beehives with David Beckham kitted out in his monogrammed bee suit, I half-wished the actor and Oscar-winning documentarian would slip into character as Hugo fromto make things properly spicy. From then on, however, I stopped wanting Beckham to be something it could never be.
So while there is no mention of the blemish on Beckham’s reputation that was his lucrative ambassadorship of Qatar in 2022 – Stevens says it was his choice not to include it – and coverage of the not-exactly-denied affair with Rebecca Loos is strictly coded, there is less shying away from other curious decisions, such as the move for the LA Galaxy wilderness that hastened his professional twilight.
Caught up in the English media’s demand for a fall guy after his red card at the 1998 World Cup, Beckham entered his death-threat era, followed moments after the birth of his first son by his kidnap-threat era. The only protection during this period appears to have come from two brands that were bigger than him and already on his side: the. Incited by a hate-stoking press, the anger of some England fans still pulses through the news archive material a quarter of a century later.
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