A Bend It Like Beckham sequel is within the works.
The 2002 sports-drama film – which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra – is broadly credited with inspiring a technology of ladies to play soccer, and director Gurinder Chadha thinks now’s the right second to launch a sequel.
The 65-year-old filmmaker instructed the BBC: “We have been a part of altering the sport for girls, so it felt like this was time for me to return and examine the characters.”
The England girls’s soccer workforce have loved important success lately, and are presently making ready to tackle Spain within the closing of Euro 2025.
Gurinder noticed that attitudes in the direction of girls’s soccer have modified for the reason that first film, however she admits that extra progress continues to be wanted.
She mentioned: “So much has modified for the reason that authentic film, however I feel that individuals nonetheless do not assume that ladies ought to play soccer.
“There are individuals who nonetheless do not take it severely, though the Lionesses are using excessive.
“I’ve left it some time, however I assumed: have a look at the Euros, have a look at the Lionesses.”
Gurinder hopes the sequel will unfold a optimistic message and “problem” stereotypes.
The director defined: “What I did was say you are able to do what you need, and you’ll have all of it, and I feel that is a extremely nice message to place out once more. I feel there’s nonetheless stuff to say, and stuff to problem.”
Bend It Like Beckham proved to be an enormous second in Keira Knightley’s profession, however the actress beforehand revealed that her buddies scoffed on the thought of constructing the film.
Throughout an look on The Tonight Present, Keira instructed host Jimmy Fallon: “I actually bear in mind telling individuals I used to be doing it and it is known as Bend It Like Beckham, and them going, ‘Oh that is actually embarrassing’. They usually had been all like, ‘Don’t fret. No person will see it. It is superb.'”
The actress famous that “girls’s soccer was not as massive” in 2002 as it’s now, and so her buddies assumed that the film would flop on the field workplace.
She mentioned: “Ladies’s soccer was not as massive again then, and so the concept of the entire thing was kind of ridiculous.”
Regardless of this, the movie proved its doubters fallacious, incomes greater than $70 million on the field workplace and even inspiring a musical adaptation of the film.
And Keira – who additionally starred within the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise – continues to be consistently reminded of her position within the film by followers.
She mentioned: “It is wonderful as a result of it is nonetheless the movie even right this moment, you already know, if somebody comes as much as discuss to me about my work it is that one. It is so cherished. It is wonderful.”
