David Beckham stated he didn’t like his Netflix documentary after the first watch.
The Netflix series ‘Beckham’, which premiered in October, explores the Manchester United icon’s career and relationship with Spice Girls vocalist Victoria Beckham.
However, it took the soccer star more than one viewing to like the series, with his wife Victoria playing a significant role in changing his opinion.
‘I planned to watch it one morning, just myself with a big screen and just to write notes,’ Beckham explained during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night.
‘That morning, I really didn’t like it. I didn’t enjoy watching it.’
David Beckham revealed that he initially didn’t like his Netflix documentary on Jimmy Kimmel
The soccer legend explained that his wife Victoria Beckham played a role in changing his mind
After the docuseries flopped at Beckham’s own box office, he decided he required his wife’s expert opinion.
‘I’d planned to let my wife watch it for the first time at the premier but I had to change that and get her to watch it with me that evening,’ he continued.
‘We sat in bed with an iPad and watched two hours of rough edit. We got to the end of it and we looked at each other and we were so emotional. We laughed, we cried, we were tired because we’d done so much in that 27 years.
‘That really was the moment when I fell in love with the documentary because I knew she loved it and that meant more to me.’
Beckham also revealed that he had initially been approached about filming a documentary when he first retired in May 2013 but he explained that he wasn’t ready to reflect on his career at the time.
Instead, he opted to wait until 2023 to release the series to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of his decision to hang up his boots.
The four-part documentary provided an intimate insight into the high-profile couple’s marriage and early romance, their family life, Beckham’s affair with Rebecca Loos as well as charting his footballing career.
The celebrity couple, who met in 1997 after ‘Posh Spice’ attended one of his Manchester United matches with Mel C, announced to the public that they were engaged a year later and have been married since July 1999.
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As they were both high-profile celebrities before dating, ‘Posh and Becks’ generated extreme levels of publicity and media attention, and it’s claimed this angered then-United manager Alex Ferguson during the early stages of their relationship.
Despite Beckham’s initial reluctance, the documentary was a huge success, with 3.8 million viewers in its first week.
According to the Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB), the first episode was seen by 3,813,100 viewers.
The second installment was successful, with 2,868,800 viewers by the week ending October 8.
Beckham has been the most watched show on Netflix for the past two weeks, with 11,600,000 viewers worldwide, according to their own stats.
