Victoria Beckham Was ‘Embarrassed’ After David Checked Her Privilege in 'Beckham' Netflix Docuseries 

David was very smart by correcting Victoria. He knows the tabloids would have destroyed her by calling her BS.

Her idea of "working class" comes from a privileged ignorance because of the fact that her family still had to work to live the way they did, but when we regular people talk about working class we know the reality of what it actually means.

His interjection was fantastic. There's a reason it resonated with viewers. Its inclusion helped it feel like David himself didn't want a totally sanitized vanity project.

This is what a good couple does. Keep each other at a higher standard.

The clue was in her being called 'posh spice'.

I mean that’s an authentic interaction between a married couple, my mum or dad would probably of gone with “stop bullshiting” but the spirit is very much the same.

She grew up in tough times. Her family was poor. Her maid was poor. Their cook was poor. The landscapers were poor. Their driver was poor. Basically everyone was poor.

He kept his wife from lying to the world. That's a marriage decision. Your perspective on the doc matters less than that.

Didn’t know Hugo from Succession was a director 😮

He threw is wife under the Rolls Royce. LOL

My dad worked down a coal mine, drove there in a Rolls Royce 😂😂😂

I think that scene was so candid that it really became a central part of the interview.

Victoria is used to so much scrutiny so it makes sense she's guarded and worried about perception but when she's herself she's so so lovable and I hope she feels that. It's really all it takes, none of us can help our background.

You don't hear or see honesty like this very often from directors, on video, talking about their latest project. I respect this A LOT.

Am i the only one who remembers him as Roger from Friends? “I hate that guy” 😂

2:20 "rough and tumble places like Cheltenham" had me crying 🤣🤣 4th richest city in the UK with 41 multi millionaires

Seeing a lot of comments about how the director shouldn’t have been pissed off but I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what he was pissed about. He was told David wouldn’t be there so he could speak with Victoria privately and when David interrupted and Fisher realized he’d been listening to the whole interview, he was mad. He wasn’t mad David held her accountable. And I understand why people might eyeroll at that but he’s a documentary director, it’s his job, he takes it seriously. Like he said himself, it was a great moment and he’s glad it happened. He was explaining the process of the scene and what was going on. Media literacy is dead. Good lord.

That scene which I saw clips of is why I watched the documentary! I was blown by the honesty of that couple. In that he checked her and she conceded. Like you can tell these to hold each other accountable and I'm sure Victoria has done this to him we just never seen it.

David just saved his wife from lying. That's a good man right there.

David kept it real, Victoria didn’t grow up working class, and her life now is so far from it. She has no need to be ashamed of it, they’ve both worked very hard for all they have. Tough luck that it pissed you off, who cares?

David a REAL one! "Thank you"...walks out.

"be HONEST" 🤣🤣 you gotta love the guy.

and that's how u keep a marriage based in truth and free of resentment. seeing that should be a huge lesson for a lot of ppl.

Glad to see Fisher is still active in filmmaking.

David said it in a teasing way, keeping her honest was great. That’s a documentary, real can be uncomfortable.

Thing is though, it is actually more complicated than the fact that her had a Rolls Royce. He did. yes, but he was a self-made man. Her family were working class and he worked his way up, started an electronics wholesale business with his wife (an insurance clerk and hairdresser) that did well and allowed them to live comfortably. So she wasn't 'lying' in the way people are making out. David wanted her to be honest about the fact that she had a wealthier childhood than him, but that doesn't mean what she was saying was false, it's more nuanced than that and she was clearly trying to explain that when she said 'it's more complicated than that'.

I have avoided this doc for months, but after watching this RU-vid video, I will go and watch it. This totally worked on me! 😊

I LOVE this documentary! I knew absolutely nothing about their story, and Fisher, Michael , Victoria and David had me rooting for them all the way to the end of the docuseries.🥳👍🏾🎬

In the UK, working class and middle class isn’t always about income, sometimes it is about identity and education

Although Victoria might find the moment embarrassing, as a viewer, it's refreshing to observe this authentic moment. Naturally, people hide behind the facade they want others to see. Not appreciating how relatable their real interactions are and how much others can connect with it.

As a writer and filmmaker, this is one of the most brilliant pieces of BTS I've ever came across on this entire website. There is educational gold within every moment of this video.

David didn't mind Victoria sugarcoating things in her interview when she was asked about David cheating on her. If it makes her look bad, he is fine with it, but if it makes him look bad then he wants her to stay quiet.

To the people trying to twist this, come on... her father worked hard... but he was not working class, he was an electrical engineer, that engineers are not working class.... who founded an electrical engineering firm with her mother, and they made considerable money. THAT IS NOT WORKING CLASS. She was not, however, just miscommunicating her meaning... she was outright lying. Or trying to. It has been reported for decades, that even attending a Church of England run high school, with quite a large middle class attendance, she was embarrassed by her families affluence, even back then. She, for example, rarely mentioned attending an Arts School, and often begged her father NOT to drop her off of a morning or pick her up of an afternoon, due to that Rolls Royce making it clear she was from some degree of money, even by the standards of her peers from relatively wealthy families. She has, apparently, been quite uncomfortable with her origins in that regard, for many years dating back to that time, and has downplayed her upbringing before. I am sure for a guy who's father installed kitchens, and mother was a hairdresser, and came from where.... Hackney was it..... to hear that from someone of her background, even if it IS his wife, is just insulting. There would be all kinds of little things he knows, which show the contrasts in where they come from, they both, for example, wanted to be what they became, she a singer and dancer, he a soccer player, from childhood, neither imagining being anything else, at least if you hear them tell it.... but I'm sure he knows that for his wife, that meant Art College... but for him, it meant attending church every Sunday, even though he was not religious, because they had good football team, and to play for them you had be part of the congregation, things like that. There'd be a ton of little subtle examples of her having doors open, where he had to climb a wall or make a sacrifice. Everyone knows that physics applies less to the affluent, for they have a much higher likelihood of 'falling upwards' than working class people. Not that I claim she did, I'm sure she was a great performer who would have been a Spice Girl had she grown up in a mud hut and been taken to school in a goat cart... but she did not, and was not, the opposite in fact. That definitely would have smoothed the pathway, rather than thrown obstacles on to it, and HE knows that, first hand. She deserved to be checked. He checks his kids too, from my understanding. So he should. Through his athletic talent, he became rich, but he knows what it is like to not be, to live a very average working class life, a life his wife did not live, nor his children now do... so they need to have their privilege checked, and be reminded of their extreme good fortune.

It was very well made and good for both life long fans of David and complete newcomers as well. Great insight.

Mr Steven’s and Mr Harte did a fabulous job on this documentary. Hope to see them work together in the future.

Its an honest realtime scene. Weve all been with significant others when we have to call bullshit.

OMG I remember Fisher Stevens in Short Circuit movies and Early Edition. I had no idea he was involved in the Beckham documentary.

Yeah, a Rolls-Royce as the family car isn't "working class".

David completely took the piss out of his "posh" wife and that's why everyone loves the scene and the two of them as a couple.

I find it so random that Hugo from Succession made a doc about Beckham haha.

I think it was the humour that made this series. Kudos to the team (always been a fan of Fisher Stevens -that voice-!) and editing and of course the Beckhams who allowed this vision of their lives!!

0:46 Tha't's phoebe's psychiatric boyfriend

The guy from SUCCESSION?!

He was completely in the right for correcting her. A real partner would not let their partner live in delusion.

Why is everyone talking about Fisher- and no one is talking about the guy who did the editing??

She was spoiled as hell & he called her out on her lies 😂

It feels like Fisher is the nonchalant Englishman and the Becks are the fame-loving Americans, not the other way around..

This interview made me really curious. I had to watch the Documentary. Ended up binging It’s brilliant

Even if they didn't make this film, their upbringing is still obvious in the demographics they cater to. David has an affordable fragrance line (which I think is great), and Victoria caters to a higher end demographic. Don't know why she was lying here.

Never forget this LEGEND dated Michelle Pfeiffer during her absolute apex from 89 - 92. Good for you Fisher!

David saved her from backlash !

Literally best scene him pulling her up. Countless memes have come from that clip. It’s brilliant

Fisher Stevens has made a great move into directing. Very awesome!

I'm an American who learned about Football(soccer) from my Irish grandmother. I knew about David growing up through his famous accolades but didn't watch him play regretfully. However, this Docusereis is one of the best I've ever seen, and I have a newfound respect and love for the Beckhams.

Recent true antidote, in 2024 to celebrate their 25 wedding anniversary they wanted to book the venue in Ireland where they got married. A young couple already had the venue booked for their wedding. The Beckhams through a third party respectfully asked them to move the date of their wedding and offered to pay all bills related to the new date. The couple declined, they then offered to fully pay for a wedding anywhere in the world. The couple again declined. Finally through the same third party they revealed who they were and they respectfully offered to pay all expenses, pay for their honeymoon, pay off their entire mortgage and give them a personal gift. The couple agreed. The Beckhams had their anniversary celebration and the couple had their entire wedding for over 150 people at the most expensive venue in Ireland and had their home paid for and they received personalized signed gifts from the Beckhams. The couple tell anyone who asks that the Beckhams are ordinary, decent, down to earth people. They were respectful and deferential throughout the entire transaction.

I can totally relate to her perspective though. Her family wasn't always wealthy. That her Dad drove a Rolls while she was at school doesn't tell the beginning. When I was a little kid all our clothes and toys were from car boot sales and we ate a hell of a lot of rice, beans and mince because it was cheap. But while we went through school my Mums career really accelerated a lot and eventually by the time I was about 9 or 10 we started to get nice cars, good food, multiple extensions to our house, holidays travelling the world etc. We knew what it was like to live a working class life because that was where we were at in the very beginning and we saw how much work it took to get out of that. It's not the same as being born into wealth because you've experienced both sides first hand.

Holy shit, it’s the ”because when you’re cool, the sun shines 24 hours a day” guy! 😎

He only said what every single viewer was thinking.

it's the only scene anyone remembers from the doc, and they are already making money off of it.

I went to NYU with Fisher. We took two semesters of Spanish together. In the class, he became, "Esteban," and I was "Jaime." The third in our trio of sad sacks striving to speak Spanish successfully was named Serita. Her name in class was... Serita. We hung out between classes at a place called Googies (I think I got that right.) Fisher was cheeky and funny. Serita was a bit high-strung but smart and easy to like. They were the only real friends I made in the two and a half years I was there at NYU. I've followed Fisher's career off and on over the past many years, seeing him go from actor to director and producer. He's had a very interesting and fascinating career. I haven't seen him since we were at school in the 80s. Fisher, if you ever see this, give me a shout. It would be great to catch up.

Didn't know that Fisher Stevens was involved.

5:30 she probably just thought working class meant "people who worked to make money"... Which is fair enough :P

I can't look at this guy without vividly picturing him as Ben Jabituya from Short Circuit 2 💀

Watching David in interviews and other things in the later years, he's really struck me as someone who's really learned from his earlier places in life. He seems so intelligent, insightful and thoughtful. He has become a good man.

If you are old enough to have heard them on the radio and see the videos on MTV, then you understand David checking Vic. She was working class. The difference is you "hear" him say it was a Rolls Royce, and mentally make the assumptions of wealth. What wasn't said was it was a used lemon of a car that was kept running with spit and duct tape. We go into far too many things with hard-fast views, like what the working class is "supposed" to look like. And when those views don't line up, we double down thinking what's being presented is dishonest.

I didn’t know Fischer had cancer. Really hope he gets treatment and recovers

I think folks tend to forget that class structure and socio-economic classifications are different in each country. Yes the idea of rich-poor is universal but I actually believe Victoria was talking about coming FROM a working class background and that kind of still ingrained in who she is despite the material success. Simply put, her and husband are commoners and they are first within their respective families/lines to have amassed the wealth they have without it being passed onto them etc. It was definitely tone deaf but to me I heard it as her articulating a truth about who she is at her core.

David showing everyone, be humble, be honest and be yourself. Whatever it may be.

It pissed you off? She was lying to everyone’s face! The only thing that saved the whole thing was him correcting her. She sounded tone deaf and what a liar. Thanks to David for he showed her the mirror.

That's how it is in England, if you lie or exaggerate we'll call you out. Being nice up front and then mean behind your back is just not how things are done.

What’s crazy is how many people don’t know how she got her name: POSH SPICE. it was given to her by an interviewer in the very early days of the Spice Girls. the interviewer gave each girl a nickname based on what she’d learned about them. When she learned that Victoria CAME FROM EXTREME WEALTH, she nicknamed her Posh. The fact that she tried to lie to the entire planet when that information is at the ready to anyone who knows history from 20 years ago is actually kind of insane. and David probably corrected her like that because he wanted to make sure she hadn’t lost her mind.

Why’s this being talked about like it’s the godfather? Isn’t it a basic documentary and interview?

From IT manager at an oil tanker company to directing the beckhams... life is trully fantastic!

Since 90% of the comments are confused or flat out wrong, let me break it down: the British class system is not the same as the US class system. Having a Rolls Royce in the UK does not change your social class. You can be a working class billionaire. As soon as they open their mouths, British people can tell they're working class. So it is primarily cultural and familial, and rarely changes in one generation. Kate Middleton is middle class despite the Princess title. The businessman Alan Sugar is a billionaire, was made a lord, is referred to as Lord Sugar, yet is still very much working class. So when Victoria and David dispute her social class, this is because they both have different notions of what class is. Victoria's understanding of class is British, she thinks about her family origins, possibly education and culture, whereas David seems to apply the more modern US concept of class as being about wealth. And no, labelling herself as working class has nothing to do with 'privilege' or other buzzwords, she's simply demonstrating that she is aware of British notions of class.

I haven’t seen Fisher Stevens since his Chuck Fishman days. I’m happy to see he’s doing well.

Glad to see that Fisher was able to pursue his Director career after being arrested by Columbo 35 years ago.

This is a FASCINATING behind-the-scenes look. Thank you so much for this Variety team, this is the kind of BTS content that I’ve been missing since special features have become more and more rare on physical media.

speaking of classic Rolls-Royce, you can occasionally find them under $30k in the U.S. classic car shows are pretty cool.

The fact of the matter is every person that grew up in a rich family will say that they come from a "working-class" background. Its just their way of staying low-profile and avoid other people leaning on them.

I didn’t realise how complex that short scene was but it was the reason I watched the doco because I saw the short of Victoria on tik tok

It was a great documentary. This is super insightful to hear the director and editor discuss their workflow.

A good marriage, a great couple will love each other and hold each other accountable. Calling each other out on their bs is necessary. nice

This was a great interview with Fisher Stevens about his Beckham documentary and you cheapened it by using a click bait tagline and quote about something that pissed Fisher off. Nowhere else in the actual clip (5:50) does he say he was pissed off. Do better Variety.

David must've been starving. 'Cause he came and ate. And left no crumbs.

The director can be "pissed" all he wants, but it was the truth. She came from a privileged life. Hence her name being "Posh" Spice. Beyonce also came from a privileged upbringing. I respect the fact they still both choose to work but the truth is the truth. They grew up from a place of comfort compared to other working-class citizens.

fabulous interview segment. Now, I want to watch the documentary. Mission accomplished.

I loved the docuseries. And I'm not even interested in Beckham - but now I have a new found respect.

I think both look good here, beckham calling wifey out on BS, then wifey admitting she said some BS. They keep eachother honest which is a sign of a good and healthy relationship

I love how he said "thank you" and left lol idk why the movie guy was pissed. You want a documentary, that means being real.

It's funny that Fisher Stevens didn't know who Beckham was because he played like the co-founder of FIFA in "United Passions" the 2014 FIFA funded movie about their history!

It’s the scene I always recall when I try to encourage friends and family to watch it. They all loved it!

This docuseries was so good. I know Beckham is famous in UK but he was not very famous in the US and I myself didn't know anything about the backstory. Loved this doc and I hope Fisher does way more stuff for Netflix like this

That was the most genuine thing of the whole interview. Not saying other parts weren’t, just that this one was the most.

@10:01 At this moment you realize how wealthy Beckham is or is not. Truly wealthy people don’t go anywhere for a facial or a haircut or pedicures or manicures. Wealthy people have the facilities for those specialist to come to their home to provide those services.

Damn, David Beckham got to be directed by The Plague 😮!!!

I was not initially expecting much from this documentary but it was phenomenal. That be honest scene had me hooked as it did for every one that I know who saw it. A HUGE well done to all involved 👍👍

@variety you spelled Victoria wrong in title ❤

I never cared about these two before I saw the show, now I think they are both a couple of sweethearts.

This insight into the making is incredibly informative. Veritie! Mini masterclass 🙏

I too like to sometimes call people for the first time and say "hey it's Case" and then carry on with the conversation like they know who I am. most people just go with it xD