David Beckham on how he found the perfect director for the Beckham Documentary... Fisher Stevens 📺

0:00 It wasn't just my life, it was my life with my wife and my kids, you know.

0:05 So, it was the whole thing.

0:06 If I was going to do it,

0:08 I wanted to do it properly.

0:09 Once I decided that, then it was about finding the right director.

0:13 And I' I'd met a couple of director,

0:15 three or four directors, and and nothing felt right.

0:18 And I was getting to the point where I thought maybe this is a sign.

0:21 Maybe I'm not going to do it.

0:22 And then I phoned a friend that is in the the movie industry,

0:26 and he turned around to me and he said,

0:28 "You have to speak to Fisher." The moment I met Fischer,

0:31 I knew that he was going to make me feel uncomfortable,

0:34 which I needed to bring things out in me.

0:36 And every single session that we sat down,

0:38 he made me feel uncomfortable every single time.

0:41 I tried my best.

0:42 Also for you, like deciding, you know,

0:44 to to make that decision of taking taking that on.

0:47 How was that in terms of figuring that that aspect of it out?

0:50 I didn't want to do it originally.

0:52 The guy he's talking about is Leonardo DiCaprio,

0:55 who I've done a bunch of docs with.

0:56 They called me and said to meet David and I was like why me blah blah blah like

1:00 I don't know football I love it but was

1:02 I qualified American and I wasn't sure and I was

1:05 acting on Succession at the time and the writers

1:08 were all British and I called them and I spoke

1:11 to David's people about this possibility and they were

1:14 like are you crazy he's a legend you have to

1:18 but that's what that's what I loved about

1:20 Fischer you know obviously a Liverpool fan that's American

1:26 that would come at the story in a totally different