Fisher Stevens has spoken of his delight at Sir David Beckham receiving his knighthood - and revealed he was among the select few invited to celebrate the milestone earlier this month.
The former England captain, 50, was honoured at Windsor Castle on November 4 for his services to sport and charity.
That evening, he marked the occasion with an intimate dinner hosted by Gordon Ramsay at the chef’s Michelin-starred restaurant in Chelsea.
Sir David, Lady Victoria, 51, and their children, Romeo, 23, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 14, were seen leaving at around 1am after an evening that featured champagne and Beckham’s favourite £600 bottle of Château Margaux.
His parents Ted and Sandra, Victoria’s parents Tony and Jackie Adams, family friend Dave Gardner, Cruz’s girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, and Gordon and Tana Ramsay were also in attendance.
Victoria’s sister, Louise Adams, joined the celebrations with her children Libby, Finley and Tallulah, who shared snippets from inside the lively dinner on social media.
Stevens, too, toasted the occasion. Speaking to the Standard, the actor and filmmaker said: “I did! We celebrated, a bunch of us. He’s a good man, very happy for him.”
Asked whether he now considers himself part of the extended Beckham fold, he laughed: “Not really. He’s a good man and I’m really happy for him… even though I’m a Liverpool supporter.”
Stevens, who directed Netflix’s hit Beckham docuseries, suggested that the project has spurred him on to his next major docuseries — though he stopped short of revealing the subject.
“Yeah, I’m doing another bunch of things,” he said. “Something that’s kind of a David Beckham series but not with David Beckham, with somebody else I can’t mention yet, but soon.”
The Succession star was speaking at the London premiere of his new film Song Sung Blue, which stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson alongside Michael Imperioli and Jim Belushi.
The film is about a real-life couple from Milwaukee, Mike (Jackman) and Claire Sardina (Hudson), who form a popular Neil Diamond tribute band called ‘Lightning and Thunder’.
The movie is a musical drama based on a 2008 documentary of the same name and follows their journey of love and their dream of performing.
Stevens, who plays the couple’s manager and dentist Dr. Dave Watson, said the cast bonded so closely that none of them wanted filming to end.
“I had never worked with any of them before. I knew pretty much everybody from being so old and in showbiz for so long,” he joked. “It was one of those magical things where everybody couldn’t wait to get to work.
“We loved working, we loved putting on the clothes, we loved talking in the accents. It was a kind of bummer when it ended — often you can’t wait for your movies to end. This one… we just wanted to keep going.”
Director Craig Brewer, known for Footloose and Hustle & Flow, praised Hudson and Jackman’s partnership on set.
“Not only am I in love with their acting and in love with their singing, but seeing them as people really being there for each other,” he said. “When you’ve got to do a movie where people really have to get to raw emotions, it’s lonely out there on that tightrope — you need a net, and they found it in each other.
“There would be times Hugh was doing an emotional scene, I’d call cut, and Kate would be there talking to him, being a cheerleader — and the same in reverse. That’s special.”
Song Sung Blue is released in UK and Irish cinemas on January 1, 2026
