Victoria Beckham docu-series director reveals that the pop star had no say in the final edit of the show

The former pop star and current fashion entrepreneur, Victoria Beckham, opens up in a brand-new three-part documentary for Netflix. The documentary comes in the wake of the other half of the Beckham duo's Emmy win for the Beckham documentary, which reflected on more than thirty years of his life. However, this time around, the focus is on the former Spice Girl, her present, and everything in her life that has led to this moment.

Victoria Beckham was produced by Studio 99, David Beckham's studio, but had an American director, Nadia Hallgren (Becoming), behind the lens. In a conversation with Variety, Hallgren reveals that, despite being known as the ultimate controller of the narrative (see the "My Dad Had a Rolls Royce" T-shirt on the former pop star's website), Victoria had no say over the final edit of the docu-series.

"She did not have final say on the edit. Her and I had definitely talked about my idea during the process. We developed that relationship. But she didn’t have final cut."

Here's what the docu-series director revealed about the fashion entrepreneur letting go of her control of the narrative for the sake of honesty and vulnerability.

Victoria Beckham docuseries director Hallgren reveals that the former Spice Girl had no say over the final cut

The Victoria Beckham docuseries is a tale of entertainment, vulnerability, and depth as it focuses on where she is at the moment and how everything in her life has helped her build up to it.

The Beckhams are famously known as people who would do anything to protect their family's peace and image, and with that comes their control over the narrative that is created about them. So, for such a public individual to let go of their control and allow the director to have the final cut, Victoria needed to feel a chemistry with the person behind the camera. Hallgren reveals:

"She’s incredibly funny. The first day I met her, that was one thing that really drew me to her. I remember leaving that meeting and saying, well, I hope she picks me, because I just had such a raw experience with her. It was funny, it was vulnerable, it was deep, it was superficial. You know, it was almost like sitting with a friend that you know really well."

This chemistry between Hallgren and Victoria was one of the reasons that the former Spice Girl could be unapologetically vulnerable on camera:

"I think Victoria and I share this willingness to take risks and know that we may be measured against something. But that’s OK, because we believe that it could be as good."

Hallgren even went on to emphasize how the fashion entrepreneur made a conscious, self-aware decision to open herself up and surrender in a way that she never had before:

"there has to at least be a willingness going in. The whole process with Victoria was letting go and her being extremely uncomfortable with that, but still doing it right. I think it’s good that she felt uncomfortable. You want people to be uncomfortable when they’re making a documentary — it was like, how do I help push her out of her comfort zone? But you have to want to be pushed out your comfort zone. So it’s this thing that you do together. "

She went on to conclude that the chemistry that the two shared and Beckham's willingness to open up about some of her most vulnerable moments and a constant zeal to push out of her comfort zone resulted in an expressive, emotional, and vulnerable Victoria Beckham:

"It’s like, we push a little more and we push a little more and we push a little more, and then we get the results that we got, which was a Victoria Beckham that was very willing to talk about things that she hadn’t talked about before and express things, be emotional, be vulnerable."

The three-part docuseries titled Victoria Beckham is now available to stream on Netflix.

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