During an look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Pirates of the Caribbean star was requested if she had any thought the sports activities comedy could be such an enormous hit and launch her to stardom again in 2002. In response, she revealed that her associates thought the title and idea of the movie, which follows two ladies attempting to forge soccer careers, have been “sort of ridiculous. No, no, no, I mean, I literally remember telling people that I was doing it, and saying, you know, ‘It’s called Bend It Like Beckham’ and them going, ‘Oh, that’s really embarrassing.'”
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