10 Weirdest Footballer Cameos In Movies

Just going to hijack my own article here by first assuming that everyone reading it already knows about David Beckham's small but prominent role in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur movie. If you don't, well, he's in it, at an important moment no less, has a good few lines, and the film absolutely tanked. That's all I can give you right now.

What I want to talk about is how every single person who saw the film came away sneering at his acting ability. His handful of interactions with Charlie Hunnam saw him play the role of grizzled, impatient, rude army man who was more concerned with talking down to our hero than he was with maintaining an orderly queue for him.

But the thing is, if you watch it back, the reason he comes off as janky and wooden and awkward is because the script is absolutely horrendous.

Presumably asked to adopt an absurd mockney accent for the part, he's given "Bouncin' on my knee, where do you think I want you!? 'ands on the 'ilt, stupid!" to work with. Daniel Day-Lewis couldn't have made that sound like something a normal person would ever actually say, and if you strip away the dialogue it's probably the best non-Franck Leboeuf cameo on this entire list.