For the past decade, streamers, producers and fans have been asking for a David Beckham documentary. But the professional athlete wasn’t ready until now — and neither was his family. And ultimately, that’s where decisions lie.
“Family has always come first,” Beckham says. It’s a theme echoed throughout our interview and through the entirety of “Beckham,” Netflix’s four-episode docuseries about one of soccer’s all- time greats. Victoria Beckham and their four children — Brooklyn , 25; Romeo, 21; Cruz, 19; and Harper, 12 — were a big part of the process from start to finish.
But, at first, he wasn’t sure that he wanted that. “It changed along the way, honestly. At one point, I thought, ‘Do I really want too much of the kids in there and Victoria?’” he admits.
But he quickly realized that it was unavoidable in addressing his career. “My career was about my kids, and it was about my wife, because we’ve been together now for 27 years. The kids lived through the whole thing.
I wanted them to be part of it, but I didn’t want to put too much pressure on having them in there and having them speak.” David has said it multiple times, but the main reason he made the doc was to compile everything — both the ups and downs — for his family. And from the start, he and Victoria decided to dive in headfirst with the same vision: “If we’re gonna do this, we do it.
Like we do everything else, we throw everything into it.” While their adult sons.
