David Beckham explains decision behind 40-hour interview marathon for Netflix

‘BECKHAM’ documentary series: official trailer

David Beckham has explained why now was the right time to take part in a massive undertaking for his four-part documentary series, Beckham.

The revealing doc will be released on Netflix this Wednesday and reveal even more about his football career and life with Victoria Beckham than ever before.

Speaking at the show’s premiere in London, he revealed he took part in over 40 hours of interviews conducted by Succession star and director Fisher Stevens.

When asked if he wanted to set the record straight on certain stories, he said: “I suppose on some things.

“But, obviously, when I started this whole process and I sat down with Fisher we had a vision of how it was going to be.

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“And then we did our first sit-down talk and he was like, ‘Okay, we need to change this’.”

Beckham, 48, revealed to Sky’s Katie Spencer that the entire outline for the series began to change as the star midfielder began to open up.

“I expected to sit down a couple of times with him,” he recalled.

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“And then for the rest to be archive and people talking. But all of a sudden he was like, ‘Okay, we need to do something different’.

“And then we sat down and I think it was either 40, 45 or 50 hours of sitting down.

“But, you know what? There was a lot of things to talk about. There’s a lot of things that happened in my life and career.

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“Setting the things straight? I don’t know, at the end of the day people know a lot of the stories but they’ve never heard some of them from me.

“For me going over certain things, like [the 1998 World Cup], I had never really sat down and talked about [it] in such detail.”

Beckham will be released Wednesday, October 4 on Netflix.

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