👏 A moment of appreciation for Bend It Like Beckham's Jess Bhamra 👏
Despite the fact that Nagra’s Jess wasn’t actually an IRL soccer player, she was the person I turned to as inspiration for one super big but pretty simple reason: She looked like me. Growing up in a predominantly white community meant that I wasn’t used to seeing that IRL, and in 2002, onscreen. Which is why watching Jess head a ball and follow her dreams was so impactful. And still is.
At the beginning of the film, when Jess first goes out for the team, Coach Joe tells her:"I've never really seen an Indian girl into football.” And, as journalist Ishani Nath noted in a
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