14 Cameos In Huge Movies You Probably Missed

8. David Beckham - The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The Man From Uncle David Beckham
Warner Bros.

Here's a cameo that's really clever and sneaky. Legendary footballer David Beckham shows up in Guy Ritchie's period crime caper The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for one scene as a bespectacled projectionist.

The key here is that Beckham is in a fairly convincing disguise, the scene's shot in low light, his one line is in Russian ("Apologies, comrade") and the shots of Beckham are intercut with information we're actually supposed to pay attention to, so it's easy to not focus on the face of his non-character too much.

Ritchie clearly relishes this, as he even closes in pretty tight on Beckham's face a few times, but because we're not looking for it, it's easy to let this one pass you by.

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