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Beckham's cameo is classic!
By Jordan Barnes
FANS have waited two years to see David Beckham in King Arthur.
And they weren’t disappointed!
Playing toughened blackleg knight Tripper, check out the retired footballer ordering around Arthur, played by Charlie Hunnam.
“Where do you want me?” asks Hunnam, in Legend of the Sword.
“Bouncing on my knee. Where do you think I want you? Hands on the hill, stupid!,” said Beckham as Tripper.
“Oi, both hands!” he yells with his familiar high-pitch voice, when Arthur fails to pull Excalibur from the stone.
There’s a touch of cockney humour about the scene with London boy Beckham and Hunnam, who once starred as a violent West Ham fan in drama Green Street Hooligans.
Beckham announced he would pursue an acting career in September 2015 with a role in his pal Guy Ritchie’s film already landed.
The release of King Arthur has been delayed, originally slated for July, it is now expected to come out later in the year.
But it is not the first time Beckham and Ritchie have worked together.
Becks’ first cameo in a Ritchie flick came earlier that year.
Had a blink-and-you’ll-miss role disguised as a projectionist in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The pair worked on a H&M advert in 2013 where former England skipper bolts around streets of Los Angeles in his underwear.
However, he isn’t the first footballer to be cast by Ritchie.
Wimbledon defender Vinnie Jones got in front of the camera after hanging up his boots.
The 1988 FA Cup winner with the Crazy Gang, Jones starred in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch with Ritchie.
• This article first appeared in
Malay Mail Afternoon E-paper yesterday.
Beckham's cameo is classic!
By Jordan Barnes
FANS have waited two years to see David Beckham in King Arthur.
And they weren’t disappointed!
Playing toughened blackleg knight Tripper, check out the retired footballer ordering around Arthur, played by Charlie Hunnam.
“Where do you want me?” asks Hunnam, in Legend of the Sword.
“Bouncing on my knee. Where do you think I want you? Hands on the hill, stupid!,” said Beckham as Tripper.
“Oi, both hands!” he yells with his familiar high-pitch voice, when Arthur fails to pull Excalibur from the stone.
There’s a touch of cockney humour about the scene with London boy Beckham and Hunnam, who once starred as a violent West Ham fan in drama Green Street Hooligans.
Beckham announced he would pursue an acting career in September 2015 with a role in his pal Guy Ritchie’s film already landed.
The release of King Arthur has been delayed, originally slated for July, it is now expected to come out later in the year.
But it is not the first time Beckham and Ritchie have worked together.
Becks’ first cameo in a Ritchie flick came earlier that year.
Had a blink-and-you’ll-miss role disguised as a projectionist in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The pair worked on a H&M advert in 2013 where former England skipper bolts around streets of Los Angeles in his underwear.
However, he isn’t the first footballer to be cast by Ritchie.
Wimbledon defender Vinnie Jones got in front of the camera after hanging up his boots.
The 1988 FA Cup winner with the Crazy Gang, Jones starred in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch with Ritchie.
• This article first appeared in
Malay Mail Afternoon E-paper yesterday.
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