Emmy-winning editor Michael Harte ( “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” ) refuses all credit for the most iconic edit in Fisher Stevens’ docuseries “Beckham.” That would be David Beckham calmly forcing his wife, Victoria, to admit that her father drove her to school in a Rolls Royce, a sequence that was immediately memefied.
“You gotta give massive credit to Fisher,” Harte told IndieWire. “That scene is, if anything, a representation of how good he was at getting people to relax in front of the camera. And also Tim Cragg, our cinematographer, who had the wisdom to keep the camera going back and forth.
The person that deserves the least amount of credit is me, because it’s probably the least amount of editing in the whole series!” Harte, who scored an Emmy nomination for his work on the four-part Netflix docuseries, still deserves plenty of credit. In addition to scaling the sheer amount of archival footage of football legend Beckham and his wife, former Spice Girl Victoria — not to mention the tabloid frenzy that accompanied their relationship — he had to find a way to create a cohesive, compulsively watchable narrative out of a life and career lived largely in the public eye. Or, as Harte wryly put it, “We had this little tiny bit of archive, which was only 40 years of his life when he was the most photographed person in the world.
Who ends up marrying the most photographed person in the world. And all the football matches that he ever played.” The re.