What happened to David Beckhams pretty face?
Aside from a few questionable hair choices, I find David Beckham to be a very attractive man. So attractive, in fact, that I can often recast his voice in my head when I listen to him speak. And I think the fine lines and ruggedness of age suits him. I understand this is not a universal opinion but I hold it – unabashedly. Why am I going on about my attraction to Beckham? Why not? It’s Friday, I’m tired and salivating over former footballers keeps me out of trouble. No, it’s not that. The reason I am explaining my lust for him is because I need you to know how much this hurts me:
Turns out, this is all Charlie Hunnam’s fault, according to what he told E!’s Marc Malkin. I should have known – *raises fist to ceiling* Huuuuuu-NAAAAM!!! While at CinemaCon this week, Hunnam explained that Becks’ face was destroyed for their upcoming Guy Ritchie’s Ode to Violent Mud-Throwing, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Not content to simply destroy Arthurian Legend, Ritchie destroyed Becks’ face because, Hunnam joked, it was in his contract.
Charlie Hunnam says he’s to blame for destroying Beckham’s legendary good looks.
“It’s in my contract that I must be the most beautiful person on screen,” Hunnam joked with me yesterday while promoting the movie at CinemaCon. “So I said, ‘David Beckham ain’t waltzing up here with those baby blues and those chiseled cheekbones. Throw a scar on him or I’ll be in my trailer!'”
Hunnam confessed that Ritchie thought he could keep Beckham’s appearance in the film a big secret. “There was this wildly optimistic feeling that maybe we would be able to keep it under wraps that Beckham was in the film.”
The original plan, Hunnam explained, was “we’d play half the scene and Beckham would be all scarred up and maybe you wouldn’t realize it was him and then he would turn around and it would be the big reveal.”
A pox on all your houses! I know what you’re thinking: with a cast that boasts Hunnam, Jude Law, Annabelle Wallis, Djimon Hounsou and Eric Bana – what could Becks possibly be playing? He’s Merlin! Nah, I’m just teasing – Becks plays the Blackleg Leader. I’m a bit more of a Plantagenet girl, myself, so I don’t know Arthurian lore as much as I should – what is a Blackleg leader? When I Google it, I get hits for Becks in this role and various diseases, which generates too many Becks jokes to list them all here. This is not, much to my shock, Becks’ first acting gig. He was in a short called Outlaws and The Projectionist in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., in which he was riveting (just kidding, I’d completely forgotten his cameo). So I guess his scarred face does most the acting in this role? We’ll have to wait until May 12 to see how this all pays off.
I love that his big “wow” moment was going to be a secret revealed once on film and he blew it by posting to IG. Ah Becks… you’re so pretty. Good news, though – Becks has finally figured out what Instagram is really for and has started posting multiple pics of his pup, Olive. He even made a page for her.
Photo credit: Instagram and WENN Photos
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