“Pep playing himself is a bit like having Robert De Niro play a football coach.”
Those are the musings of Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald, who has just spent two years charting the exploits of Pep Guardiola and Manchester City for A Beautiful Obsession and yet had barely heard of Guardiola before he was brought on board by Prime Video, Plan B, Workerbee and City Studios.
“He wears his heart on his sleeve,” said Macdonald. “He’s just so compelling to watch.”
Macdonald, whose subjects have included Whitney Houston and Bob Marley, and who won an Oscar for
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