{
  "id": 1586186,
  "title": "Kevin Macdonald On Capturing Pep Guardiola For Prime Video’s ‘A Beautiful Obsession’: “Like Having Robert De Niro Play A Football Coach”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/kevin-macdonald-on-capturing-pep-guardiola-for-prime-videos-a",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-17T23:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/kevin-macdonald-pep-guardiola-man-city-beautiful-obsession-1237014372/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“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 […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}