NEED TO KNOW
- Keira Knightley lately revealed the film that followers strategy her about essentially the most is Bend It Like Beckham
- Knightley mirrored on the “legacy” of the 2002 movie at a particular screening of her film The Girl in Cabin 10 on Sept. 25
- A Bend It Like Beckham sequel is within the works, writer-director Gurinder Chadha introduced in July 2025
Keira Knightley has plenty of iconic roles on her résumé, however she will get approached for another than some other.
At a particular screening of The Girl in Cabin 10 in London final month, ipromiseyoumedia requested the actress, 40, concerning the Bend It Like Beckham sequel introduced earlier this yr — and she or he revealed that the unique 2002 film is the one followers ask her about essentially the most.
“I believe it’s so superb {that a} movie that was made practically 25 years in the past, it’s nonetheless the one which if somebody comes as much as me, it’s about that movie,” she advised ipromiseyoumedia on the Sept. 25 occasion, held at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly.
“Significantly so many women do play [soccer] now, they usually need to come up and discuss it,” Knightley provides. “So it’s superb to be part of one thing that has, form of, legacy and that positivity round it.”
As for the sequel, which writer-director Gurinder Chadha introduced to Deadline in July, the actress says information of a brand new chapter within the Bend It Like Beckham story is “thrilling” — however stored her lips largely sealed, at the very least the place her involvement is anxious.
“I noticed that on telly,” Knightley says of the venture. “So sure, I imply, how thrilling.”
When requested whether or not she’d reprise her position as Jules within the movie, the star provides, “I imply, after I noticed it on the telly I assumed, ‘Oh, how pretty, I ponder what that might be?’ ”
Bend It Like Beckham starred Knightley as Jules and Parminder Nagra as Jess, two ladies with a ardour for soccer who find yourself on a staff collectively and strike up a friendship. The texture-good movie — an early aughts love letter to soccer — sees Jules fall for a coach whereas Jess sneaks round taking part in the sport towards her mother and father’ needs.
Whereas asserting the sequel to Deadline, Chadha stated she is “excited to revisit the unique characters and revive the enduring story and construct on the legacy we helped to create for the ladies’s sport.”
Knightley, Nagra and different authentic forged members are “conscious {that a} sequel is being developed, however they clearly need to see a script earlier than they commit,” the writer-director advised the outlet, including that she’s “fairly sure that everybody’s going to need to come again.”
“All the pieces hinges on the script and if the unique forged likes it,” Chadha stated. “I’m working actually laborious to verify each character I carry again has an honest arc and scenes.”
In her newest position in Netflix’s The Girl in Cabin 10 — an adaptation of Ruth Ware’s novel of the identical title — Knightley stars as Laura “Lo” Blacklock, a journalist who witnesses a potential homicide whereas on a luxurious cruise.
“Whereas on board a luxurious yacht for a journey project, a journalist witnesses a passenger thrown overboard late at evening, solely to be advised that it did not occur, as all passengers and crew are accounted for,” an official synopsis teases. “Regardless of nobody believing her, she continues to search for solutions, placing her personal life in peril.”
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The Girl in Cabin 10 is now out there to stream on Netflix.
