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."