in a light hearted way, which i thought was great. wasjess a role model for you? yeah, i think she was. i think she kept her head down, she worked hard, she stuck to the process, even when there were barriers in her way with her parents and the issues that come with that, she still knew what she wanted to go out and achieve, and i think that s really, really important for young people to see. what s crazy is thatjess was probably, for a lot of south asian girls, the only role model that looked like us and was from the same background and she wasn t real, which is sad. yeah, it is sad, it is sad, and when you think about that, the fact that we had to really use our imagination in that sense and look at a film and think, oh, ok, that is possible, but it was a film, right. whereas now, you can look at the likes of myself, maz, who plays at aston villa at the moment, you can now see it and i think that s the beauty of the difference that we ve seen 20 years on, right, if we really focus on
but i think they really portrayed it in a light hearted way, which i thought was great. wasjess a role model for you? yeah, i think she was. i think she kept her head down, she worked hard, she stuck to the process, even when there were barriers in her way with her parents and the issues that come with that, she still knew what she wanted to go out and achieve, and i think that s really, really important for young people to see. what s crazy is thatjess was probably, for a lot of south asian girls, the only role model that looked like us and was from the same background and she wasn t real, which is sad. yeah, it is sad, it is sad, and when you think about that, the fact that we had to really use our imagination in that sense and look at a film and think, oh, ok, that is possible, but it was a film, right. whereas now, you can look at the likes of myself, maz, who plays at aston villa at the moment, you can now see it and i think that s the beauty of the difference that we ve seen 20 y
to go, but we re getting there. what parts of the film are especially relatable to you? it s gotta be the scene where she s with the boys in the park playing, because honestly, that was my childhood every single day out with the boys. do you know when you do likejumpers, goal posts. practising my free kicks, but, yeah, that was my childhood completely. you d be playing from day till night, and so when i saw that part of the film and i sat back and watched it, i thought, this is me. how much did having molly there with you that whole time help you see that? you know, she s doing as well and she looks exactly the same as me. yeah, do you know what, and i always say this when people ask me, it is such a blessing that i had molly by my side growing up, because being a young girl in football, being the only girls in the playground, being the only girls at the park playing, that is very, very difficult to do alone because you ve got so many people looking over at you, thinking, why she pla
yeah, i think she was. i think she kept her head down, she worked hard, she stuck to the process, even when there were barriers in her way with her parents and the issues that come with that, she still knew what she wanted to go out and achieve, and i think that s really, really important for young people to see. what s crazy is thatjess was probably, for a lot of south asian girls, the only role model that looked like us and was from the same background and she wasn t real, which is sad. yeah, it is sad, it is sad, and when you think about that, the fact that we had to really use our imagination in that sense and look at a film and think, oh, ok, that is possible, but it was a film, right. whereas now, you can look at the likes of myself, maz, who plays at aston villa at the moment, you can now see it and i think that s the beauty of the difference that we ve seen 20 years on, right, if we really focus on the positives. i know we ve got a long way to go, but we re getting there. what
i know we ve got a long way to go, but we re getting there. what parts of the film are especially relatable to you? it s gotta be the scene where she s with the boys in the park playing, because honestly, that was my childhood every single day out with the boys. do you know when you do likejumpers, goal posts. practising my free kicks, but, yeah, that was my childhood completely. you d be playing from day till night, and so when i saw that part of the film and i sat back and watched it, i thought, this is me. how much did having molly there with you that whole time help you see that? you know, she s doing as well and she looks exactly yeah, do you know what, and i always say this when people ask me, it is such a blessing that i had molly by my side growing up, because being a young girl in football, being the only girls in the playground, being the only girls at the park playing, that is very, very difficult to do alone because you ve got so many people looking over at you, thinking,