Who were you talking to? bend it like beckham was a huge success and it made history as the highest grossing film about football. there are so many elements of it that are still true today. the film actually gave me a little bit of clarity about where i want to go with my life. i was like, this is me on screen. she s found her people. maybe i can find my people. rosie kmita, the first south asian woman to play in the wsl, you re kind of like a real life jesminder, aren t you? i m up for it. what s crazy isjesminder was probably for a lot of south asian girls, their 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. 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, ok, that is possible