We speak to the Oscar-winning filmmaker about his new Apple TV+ series, Boom! Boom! The World Vs Boris Becker, and his upcoming documentary about the under-fire Twitter boss
When Boris Becker won Wimbledon in 1985, he wasn’t old enough to get a tattoo, place a bet or purchase a lager shandy. But, overnight, the 17-year-old carrot-topped German became a global superstar. In an era of rock’n’roll tennis – his swashbuckling rivals included, Andre Agassi and Stefan Edberg – this was no mean feat. Becker, Boom Boom as he was known in the press, became a symbol of German reunification; the boy from Leimen who grew into a global icon.
“I was really into Becker,” Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney tells me, via Zoom from the East Coast of the States. “The idea that he went all out, that he played that power game. He’s hugely fun to watch.” That showmanship is the subject of Gibney’s new two-part Apple+ series, The result is a story told in two parts, based on the line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” which adorns the player’s entrance on Centre Court. Athletes are compelled to “meet with Triumph and Disaster” and “treat those two impostors just the same”. So, naturally, part one of the documentary is titled “Triumph”, and part two, you guessed it, “Disaster”.“What makes a story interesting is following it and not being quite sure where it’s going to go,” says Gibney.
It would be natural to ask who his next subject might be, but that enquiry has been made somewhat redundant. “It’s a hit piece,”, was announced last month. The project has been described as an “unvarnished” portrait of the South African-born Tesla CEO. “One of the reasons Becker was interesting to me is that he’s a great storyteller,” Gibney explains. “Elon Musk is a very charismatic storyteller.
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