David Beckham and wife Victoria Beckham were “worried” about giving cameras access to their lives with Netflix’s Beckham docuseries — even if it was a success. “It made me nervous, and it made Victoria nervous,” David, 49, confessed while speaking at the Royal Television Society in London on Tuesday, September 17, according to Variety . “I hated almost every moment of making it .
.. it was very difficult.
” The former soccer star explained, “As much as people think they know everything about us they don’t really, and we don’t really let those doors open to our house.” David noted that he “knew it was the right time” to tell his story despite it taking “a long time to come to terms with the fact that I was going to make it.” He recalled not being “ready to talk” about his career when he retired from soccer in 2013 .
However, as time passed his outlook on documenting his life, career and personal world shifted. “Through the pandemic, it’s when documentaries really exploded and it was coming up to the 10-year anniversary of my retirement from football,” David remembered, which is when he and Victoria, 50, agreed to film their lives. David noted that choosing director Fisher Stevens also helped ease his concerns about shooting, and he allowed Stevens to have full reign.
“When I met Fisher I knew this is the man that will make me feel really uncomfortable and I knew I had to feel uncomfortable to make the documentary we made,” David adde.