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Jules Paxton, a member of the Hounslow Harriers, a local women's amateur football team, notices Jess's football skills and befriends her, inviting her to try out for the team. The coach, Joe, a young Irish former player whose own career was derailed by injuries, accepts her into the team.
Jan 18, 2023 · Jonathan Rhys Meyers played Joe, the coach of Jules and Jess' soccer team, in "Bend It Like Beckham." But he told Marie Claire in 2007 that he originally "thought it was going to be terrible."
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Jun 26, 2024 · It has been 22 years since Jess and Jules led the Hounslow Harriers to victory in the feel-good film. Scroll through to see what the actors (and a certain soccer star) have been up to since Bend It Like Beckham's release way back in 2002 – and see what a potential sequel may look like!
- IN AMERICA, IT WAS ALMOST KNOWN AS MOVE IT LIKE MIA. In 2002, studio executives at Fox Searchlight were concerned that Americans wouldn’t know who David Beckham was, and wouldn’t understand what it meant to “bend” a soccer ball.
- EVEN THOUGH IT'S NAMED FOR DAVID BECKHAM, THE FILM WAS ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY PLAYER IAN WRIGHT. Chadha said that her initial idea to write a film about “the evolving concept of Britishness” came about when she saw an image of Ian Wright, a black player, wearing the Union Jack flag at the Euro 96 championship.
- GURINDER CHADHA DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SOCCER. Chadha relied on her co-writers to fill in the blanks of what she didn't know, writing “jargon jargon football jargon,” instead of actual content, into the Beckham script.
- BOTH PARMINDER NAGRA AND KEIRA KNIGHTLEY DID ALL OF THEIR OWN SOCCER PLAYING. “I put them into three months solid football training and they had a coach and every day they would in and train," Chadha told blackfilm.com. "
Apr 12, 2022 · The free-kick wins the game for Hounslow Harriers and is seen by an American scout, which leads to that football scholarship and a future the audience hope will make her parents proud.
Apr 5, 2018 · Knightley and Nagra hit the field immediately, training with a coach and a local women’s soccer team (who played Jess and Jules’ on-screen team, the Hounslow Harriers) to get their football...
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Unlike tarty elder sister Pinky, who is preparing for an Indian wedding and a lifetime of cooking the perfect chapatti, Jess' dream is to play soccer professionally like her hero David Beckham.
