What higher technique to get into the sporting spirit forward of this yr’s Summer season Olympics in France than with a film a couple of historic medal-winning Olympian? Ridley stars right here as Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, who grew to become the primary lady to efficiently swim throughout the English Channel two years after taking residence a gold medal on the 1924 Olympics. In the event you’ve by no means heard of her, you are not alone. “Essentially the most shocking factor about this story is how few folks know what Trudy did,” stated Ridley in an announcement (through Individuals). “What she achieved was not solely a private achievement, however groundbreaking for ladies in sport.”
Tailored from Glenn Stout’s non-fiction e-book of the identical identify, “Younger Girl and the Sea” was written by Jeff Nathanson and directed by Joachim Rønning, each of whom have develop into go-to creatives for Disney since they collaborated on “Pirates of the Caribbean: Lifeless Males Inform No Tales.” Rønning, who’s at the moment overseeing “Tron: Ares,” truly obtained his large break working alongside his former directing associate Espen Sandberg on the Oscar-nominated nautical interval drama “Kon-Tiki,” which makes “Younger Girl and the Sea” a little bit of a homecoming for him. He even embraced the identical “old-school” filmmaking method as he did on “Kon-Tiki,” with Ridley gamely “swimming in 60-degree water till her lips turned blue” every day, as Rønning instructed Individuals. We love to listen to it, do not we, of us?
“Younger Girl and the Sea” begins a restricted theatrical launch on Could 31, 2024. Its official synopsis reads as follows:
Daisy Ridley stars because the achieved swimmer who was born to immigrant mother and father in New York Metropolis in 1905. By means of the steadfast help of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise via the ranks of the Olympic swimming workforce and full the staggering achievement — a 21-mile trek from France to England.