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Teetu Harvey Virdi ... Teetu's Mum Ash Varrez ... Teetu's Dad Adlyn Ross ... Elderly Aunt Shobu Kapoor ... Polly Zohra Sehgal ... Biji as Zohra Segal Ace Bhatti ... Nairobi Grandson as Ahsen Bhatti Tanveer Ghani ... Video Man Nina Wadia ... Wedding Guest Jenni Birch ... Hounslow Harrier Olivia Schofield ... Hounslow Harrier as Olivia Scholfield Natasha Lee ... Hounslow Harrier Louise Walker ... Hounslow Harrier Danielle Richards ... Hounslow Harrier Suzanna Keeka ... Hounslow Harrier Tanya Beverly ... Hounslow Harrier Sally Kirkbride ... Hounslow Harrier Maki Okumurakami ... Hounslow Harrier Nav Bopari Gary Lineker ... Gary Lineker Alan Hansen ... Alan Hansen John Barnes ... John Barnes John Motson ... Commentator voice Rest of cast listed alphabetically David Beckham ... Self archive footage uncredited Gurinder Chadha ... Woman in Park / Wedding Guest uncredited Brandi Chastain ... Self archive footage uncredited Simon Clifford ... Cup Final Referee uncredited Amerjit Deu ... Uncle Raj uncredited Ray Donn ... Man at Airport uncredited Ryan Giggs ... Self archive footage uncredited Mia Hamm ... Self archive footage uncredited Andy Harmer ... David Beckham uncredited Kristine Lilly ... Self archive footage uncredited Tiffeny Milbrett ... Self archive footage uncredited Jeff Mirza ... Wedding Compere uncredited Gary Neville ... Self archive footage uncredited Panayiota Panteli ... Cup Final Footballer uncredited Gill Penny ... Victoria Beckham uncredited Bill Ridealgh ... Man at Airport uncredited Paul Scholes ... Self archive footage uncredited Tony Wood ... Football Supporter uncredited Produced by Paul Mayeda Berges ... associate producer Gurinder Chadha ... producer Ulrich Felsberg ... executive producer Russel Fischer ... executive producer Simon Franks ... executive producer Zygi Kamasa ... executive producer Deepak Nayar ... producer Paul Ritchie ... line producer Haneet Vaswani ... executive producer Barbara von Wrangell ... line producer Germany as Barbara Von Wrangell Music by Craig Pruess Cinematography by Jong Lin ... director of photography Editing by Justin Krish Casting By Carrie Hilton Liora Reich Production Design by Nick Ellis Art Direction by Mark Scruton Set Decoration by Sara Cheeky Neighbour ... as 'Cheeky' Sara Neighbour Costume Design by Ralph Wheeler-Holes ... as Ralph Holes Makeup Department Sarah Astley ... hair stylist / makeup artist Tal Botzer ... assistant hair stylist Germany / assistant makeup artist Germany Emma Cowen ... assistant hair stylist / assistant makeup artist Julie Kendrick ... daily hair stylist / daily makeup artist Lucky ... henna and nail artist Rita Patel ... daily hair stylist / daily makeup artist Paula Price ... hair stylist / makeup artist Sara Tuohey ... makeup trainee Julie Van Praag ... hair stylist supervisor / makeup supervisor Production Management Claudia Blümel ... production manager Germany as Claudia Bluemel Sandra Shuttleworth ... production manager Claudia Sumner ... post-production supervisor Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Paul Mayeda Berges ... second unit director Phil Booth ... second assistant director Gundula Dietrich ... second assistant director Germany Fiona Gosden ... additional third assistant director as Fiona Godsen Guy Heeley ... first assistant director Oliver Kester ... third assistant director Germany Vicky Marks ... third assistant director Art Department Ian Bee ... carpenter as Ian 'Buzz' Bee Sarah Bicknell ... assistant art director as Sarah Stuart Lee Bryant ... additional stand-by props Jaswinder Bushell ... art department consultant Jay Butcher ... carpenter Phil Clarke ... art department assistant Lisa Collins ... painter Nina Cowan-Russell ... assistant props buyer as Nina Russell-Cowan John Drury ... carpenter Lizzie Hagan ... junior buyer Andrew Hall ... painter as Andrew 'Hally' Hall Russell Hanson ... dressing props Nick Holmes ... scenic artist Henry Jones ... chargehand carpenter adr recordist US Bryan Pennington ... consultant Dolby Rudy Pi ... re-recording mixer Paul Schwartz ... boom operator Alec St. John ... assistant sound editor as Alec St John Graeme Stoten ... adr mixer UK as Graham Stoten Lucy Sustar ... foley mixer James Wright ... consultant Dolby Chris Elam ... re-recording mixer uncredited Tim Maxwell ... sound re-recordist uncredited John Soukup ... sound transfer uncredited Visual Effects by Minky Billups ... lead digital artist Scott Billups ... visual effects supervisor Chris Buchakjian ... digital artist Tim Cutt ... digital artist Josh Levine ... digital artist Brian Allan ... optical camera uncredited Mark Edwards ... visual effects producer uncredited Camera and Electrical Department Jim Bishop ... focus puller Lou Bogue ... gaffer Neil Brown ... additional focus puller Ben Chads ... additional focus puller Philip Coleman ... additional grip Chris Connatty ... clapper loader John Cridlin ... additional focus puller Sara Deane ... camera trainee Rupert Goldbeck ... camera trainee Germany Matthew Hale ... additional focus puller Star Hart ... camera trainee as Star Tony Hennessey ... stand-by rigger as Tony Hennessy Finch Judges ... camera trainee Mary Kyte ... additional camera operator Callum Milne ... electrician Jamie Monks ... additional grip Phil Mullally ... additional focus puller Peter Myslowski ... grip Joel O'Sullivan ... stills assistant Charlie Palmer ... additional camera operator as Charles Palmer Christine Parry ... still photographer Ralph Ramsden ... additional focus puller Gary Romaine ... additional grip Martin Stephens ... additional camera operator Pat Sweeney ... best boy David Taylor ... electrician Simon Ward ... additional grip as Simon Wards Peter Wignall ... camera operator as Peter Wignal / steadicam operator as Peter Wignal Terry Williams ... additional grip as Terry William Jonathan Yates ... generator operator Jamie Monks ... key grip uncredited Niki Roberton ... camera trainee uncredited Casting Department Carole Ruggier ... adr casting USA Stephen Moore ... casting assistant uncredited Costume and Wardrobe Department Johnathon de Domenico ... costume supervisor as Johnathon De Domenico Samantha Green ... costume trainee Rebecca Townsend ... costume assistant Eva Vellmer ... costume trainee Germany Editorial Department Fred Chandler ... post production executive Carlos Domeque ... assistant editor Karin C. 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When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe. 16 things you probably didn't know about 'Bend It Like Beckham' Updated 2023-01-18T144146Z Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley starred in "Bend It Like Beckham." Sundance/WireImage via Getty Images The sports comedy "Bend It Like Beckham" was an instant hit after its 2002 release. Stars Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra did months of soccer training before filming. David Beckham happily approved of his name being used in the film. The production staff was worried that people wouldn't get the title in the US. David Beckham appeared briefly as himself in archival footage. Fox Searchlight Pictures "Bend It Like Beckham" was created by British writer/director Gurinder Chadha, and the film was first released in the UK, so there were some concerns that American audiences wouldn't understand the film's filmmakers weren't sure if they would get what it meant to "bend" a soccer ball or know who David Beckham was — he hadn't yet gained the American pop-culture status he has to ESPN, the movie's US title was almost changed to "Move It Like Mia," in reference to American professional soccer player Mia Hamm. Director Gurinder Chadha told the "Burn It All Down" podcast in 2019 that "Soccer and Me" was also in the end, Chadha pushed for keeping "Bend It Like Beckham," and she was ultimately successful. In Germany, however, the film's title did change. The film was renamed "Kick It Like Beckham" for its German release. Fox Searchlight Pictures For its German release, the film changed its name to "Kick It Like Beckham" to avoid any confusion about what "bending" is a signature skill of Beckham's where he can kick the ball so it curves around obstacles and is harder for a goalie to track. But they decided to change the word to "kicking" in the title to try and reach a wider audience. According to Chadha, the title is about more than just soccer. Anupam Kher and Parminder Nagra in "Bend It Like Beckham." Fox Searchlight Pictures In a 2003 interview with BlackFilm, Chadha said that the title works on more than one level — which is why she was so adamant about keeping it for the international from being a reference to pro footballer Beckham, who she describes as the "Michael Jordan of soccer in England," it's also a metaphor for achieving life goals."[It's a] great metaphor for a lot of us, especially girls. We can see our goal but instead of going straight there, we too have to twist and bend the rules sometimes to get what we want." She elaborated in her "Burn It All Down" interview, saying, "... I never played soccer, but I understood the metaphor of it and for me it was a film about people breaking the rules, but actually you're bending the rules."She continued, "So what I did my whole life was bend the rules, and there were expectations of how I should behave as girl, as an Indian girl, and then a woman. I kept trying to duck and dive that to be who I am." Chadha wasn't a soccer expert when she created the film. Director Gurinder Chadha said she didn't know much about the sport. Fox Searchlight Pictures According to the same 2015 interview with The Telegraph, Chadha didn't know much about the sport when she was inspired to write a movie about said that she even used to write placeholders in the script like, "Jargon jargon football jargon." The lead actors spent months in soccer training to prepare for their roles. Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley had to learn how to play soccer. Fox Searchlight Pictures Knightley who played Jules told Interview magazine in 2012 that she and Nagra who played Jess had 20 weeks of rigorous soccer practice before filming. According to ESPN, famed English coach Simon Clifford led their training, and he was convinced that Knightley was such a natural she could have gone professional."If I'd trained her from the age of 10 or 11, without a shadow of a doubt Keira could have been a pro," he said. Knightley had, in fact, played soccer in primary school, but she told Interview that her team "never actually scored a goal. We only kicked people." Nagra did the "bending" all on her own — and on the first take. Parminder Nagra in "Bend It Like Beckham." Fox Searchlight Pictures All that soccer training paid off for Nagra because she didn't end up having to use a professional stand-in or body double for the film. She learned how to bend the ball scene where Jess is hanging up the laundry in the backyard was the first soccer sequence that was shot, and according to Chadha, Nagra was able to get the kick right on the first take."Everybody jumped up and cheered. It was absolutely fantastic," Chadha said in a director's commentary clip from Fox Searchlight. "They were like, 'Oh she can bend a ball. It's not going to be a waste of time then.'" Some of the other castmates were real soccer players. Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra acted alongside real soccer players. Fox Searchlight Pictures Chadha told BlackFilm that, apart from Knightley, Nagra, and Tricia Marie "Shaznay" Lewis — who's a member of the popular English-Canadian girl group All Saints — the film's fictional Hounslow Harriers soccer team was composed mostly of players from real London football clubs. Nagra worried her scar would keep her from getting the role. The director added Parminder Nagra's scar into the script. Fox Searchlight Pictures Like her character, Nagra has a big scar on her leg, and initially, the actor was worried that she wouldn't be cast in a role where she had to wear shorts because it would expose her told the "Burn It All Down" podcast that she remembered getting an email from Nagra's agent that said, "... If she's gonna be in shorts, we need you to know she's got a huge burn down her leg. We didn't want to tell you before in case that influenced your choice, but now we need to tell you." "I think they thought I was not gonna give her the role because of that," the director said. But Chadha had no problem adding her scar to the script. She even used the real story Nagra burned herself as a child while trying to make beans on toast. Chadha made two cameos in the movie. Gurinder Chadha appeared in "Bend It Like Beckham." Fox Searchlight Pictures "If you know my films you'll know I always love a cameo," the director recently wrote in a post on had two cameos in "Bend It Like Beckham." In one scene, she played a jogger in the park who Jules and Jess run past, and in another, she was a guest at Jess' sister's wedding. Many of Chadha's family members also made appearances. Gurinder Chadha cast her family members as extras in "Bend It Like Beckham." Fox Searchlight Pictures Chadha told the "Burn It All Down" podcast that she filled out the cast with people she knew, including her mom, aunts, and friends."I did really well on cheap extras," she joked. She went on to say, "... It was wonderful making the film in that part of the community, and we never knew it was going to be as successful as it was ..."Additionally, Chadha told Time Out that her mother is one of the four women standing behind the main characters on the movie's poster. The film is semi-autobiographical, and some characters are based on people from Chadha's life. Parminder Nagra and Shaheen Khan in "Bend It Like Beckham." Fox Searchlight Pictures The director told the "Burn It All Down" podcast and Time Out that portions of the movie are autobiographical and many of its characters are based on people she example, Jules' mom is based on her friends' moms growing up, and Jess' strict Indian parents are based on her own mom and dad — especially the parts where Jess' mom wants her to learn how to be a perfect Indian cook so she'll find a nice husband. Jess and Jules' jersey numbers are significant. Jess is number seven, just like David Beckham. Fox Searchlight Pictures Throughout the film, Jess wears the number seven, which was Beckham's Manchester United/England wears Hamm's number, nine, and she idolizes the pro American player in the film. It was the first Western-made movie shown on TV in North Korea. "Bend It Like Beckham" has an interesting connection to North Korea. Fox Searchlight Pictures According to the BBC, the British embassy arranged for "Bend It Like Beckham" to be shown in North Korea in 2010 to mark the 10-year anniversary of the countries' diplomatic ties — making it the first Western-made film to be broadcast in the country. The film depicts interracial relationships, homosexuality, and open talks about religion, all of which were considered taboo topics in North Korea, so its airing was a big deal. Jonathan Rhys Meyers was worried the movie would be terrible. Parminder Nagra and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in "Bend It Like Beckham." Fox Searchlight Pictures 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.""Even in the beginning I was like, 'I don't want to do this,'" he said. "But I spoke to my brother and he said, 'Do the film. Everybody's going to love this.'" Read next Features Freelancer Evergreen story More... r/movies The goal of /r/Movies is to provide an inclusive place for discussions and news about films with major releases. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just to entertain readers. Read our extensive list of rules for more information on other types of posts like fan-art and self-promotion, or message the moderators if you have any questions. Members Online

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