BEHIND THE SCENES
First video- A little look behind the scenes when shooting the film 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Second video- Interview with Parminder Nagra (Jesminder) and Simon Darcy Clifford (Producer) on 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Third Video- Interview with Keira Knightley (Jules) on 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Second video- Interview with Parminder Nagra (Jesminder) and Simon Darcy Clifford (Producer) on 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Third Video- Interview with Keira Knightley (Jules) on 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Gurinder Chada
Gurinder Chada is the writer and director of 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Gurinder was born in Kenya, but grew up in London, England. She began her career as a news reporter with BBC Radio, then directed several award winning documentaries for the BBC, and began an alliance with the British Film Institute and Channel Four. In 1990, Chadha set up her own production company: Umbi Films. She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the British Film Industry.
‘Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts and you need the feedback of other people, and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.’- Gurinder Chada
Popular Movies she had directed and written:
DID YOU KNOW?
Gurinder Chada is the writer and director of 'Bend It Like Beckham'.
Gurinder was born in Kenya, but grew up in London, England. She began her career as a news reporter with BBC Radio, then directed several award winning documentaries for the BBC, and began an alliance with the British Film Institute and Channel Four. In 1990, Chadha set up her own production company: Umbi Films. She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the British Film Industry.
‘Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts and you need the feedback of other people, and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.’- Gurinder Chada
Popular Movies she had directed and written:
- It's a Wonderful Afterlife
- Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
- Bride & Prejudice
- Bend It Like Beckham
- What's Cooking?
DID YOU KNOW?
- By the end of the movie, Jess and Jules were originally supposed to be a lesbian couple but the script was changed because it was too controversial.
- Almost all the girls who played in the movie as Hounslow Harriers team mates are professional footballers.
- Many of the wedding guests are relatives of director Gurinder Chadha (the director) and added realism by throwing themselves wholeheartedly into the scenes and treating the shoot as if it were a real wedding.
- Jess wears #7 for the Hounslow Harriers, the number David Beckham wears for England and once wore for Manchester United.
- Parminder Nagra was worried that the scar on her leg would prevent her from getting the role of Jess. Instead, the scar - and the story behind it - were worked into the script.
- Melanie Chisholm (as Melanie C) wanted her song "Independence Day" to be used in the film but the lyrics didn't work so she rewrote them so the song could be used.
- Though their characters are roughly the same age, in reality there is a 10 year age gap between Parminder Nagra (b. 1975) and Keira Knightley (b. 1985).
- The actresses were coached by Simon Clifford, who runs Futbol De Salao, a Brazilian soccer school.
- Although football star David Beckham and the term "bend" are well-known in the U.K., they were virtually unknown in the U.S. As such, when the time came for the film's U.S release, 20th Century Fox marketing execs suggested changing the title to "Move it like Mia", alluding to U.S. football star Mia Hamm. Director Gurinder Chadha objected to the name change and the film was released with its original title.
- ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ was the first Western film allowed to be shown in North Korea.