Bend It Like Beckham star joins ER
Bend It Like Beckham star Parminder Nagra is to join the cast
of ER. She will playing an English-educated intern in the US
medical drama.Nagra was asked if she would like to be in the
show during a meeting with series creator John Wells.
She told the New York Post: "He kind of just came out
with it, really, and said "How do you fancy doing some
ER?""I just kind of went, 'Well, umm, yes".
I couldn't have been more flattered, really."Nagra's
ER character is being worked out and still without a name, but
the actress says she does know she will be playing "an
intern born in India but raised and educated in England,"
which will be a way of "keeping her British accent.
"She said of her character, who has yet to be named: "At
the moment, she seems like someone who really knows her stuff,
is very astute, very work-conscious, very kind of straight forward."