"Not really here, but you can in America - they've got a pro-league with new stadiums and everything," she says.
#Kick it like beckham professional
When Jess is told by her friend and team-mate Jules - played by Keira Knightley - that she wants to be a professional footballer, her reaction is of the time. It also shows just how accessible football is, and one simple conversation shows just how much the women's game in the UK has developed in the past 20 years. She had a huge impact on audiences as she shared the same lived experiences - both negative and positive - as many girls and women who played (and play) sport in the UK.īut the film also uses football to navigate other coming-of-age themes including sexuality, with Jess' best friend Tony coming out to her by saying: "No, I really like Beckham." Jess was the closest thing to a sporting role model we'd ever had, and would have for years to come. When director Gurinder Chadha saw a photograph of Wright wearing a union jack, it made her think about what Britishness really meant in the late 1990s, and she decided to write a film about the "evolving concept of Britishness".įor many British-South Asian girls, the film was an important moment as it gave us Jesminder Bhamra. The film was inspired by former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright.
But when you look a bit deeper, it explores much more.
On the surface, Bend It Like Beckham is a film about a football-loving teenager from a British-Indian Sikh family in London.
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