How David Beckham Ended Up in Guy Ritchie’s ‘King Arthur’ (Video)

Ritchie previously directed the soccer superstar in “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”

Casting David Beckham in “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” was a no-brainer for director Guy Ritchie, who has more in common with the soccer superstar than just fair-haired good looks.

“Our kids go to the same school and we go to the same pub and then we go to the same sort of gay gym,” Ritchie said on Friday’s U.K. talker “The Graham Norton Show.”

Norton quickly jumped in, joking, “Isn’t that just ‘gym’? I think the ‘gay’ is silent.”

After a good laugh, Ritchie brought up the history he and Beckham have as director and actor. “I used him before in the previous film I did, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’

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