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‘Young Woman And The Sea’ Director Joachim Rønning & Producer Jerry Bruckheimer On Portraying a Powerful Female Athlete: “This Is The Highest Testing Movie I’ve Ever Made”
'Young Woman And The Sea' Director Joachim Rønning & Producer Jerry Bruckheimer On Portraying a Powerful Female Athlete: "This Is The Highest Testing Movie I've Ever Made"
The road Young Woman and the Sea has taken to the screen reads not unlike the hero’s journey it seeks to portray.The film about American swimmer Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, took nearly ten years to complete with various talent attached, numerous studios involved and financial roadblocks to overcome, until in the summer of 2022, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil director Joachim Rønning and Star Wars ’ actor Daisy Ridley were finally able to bring Trudy’s story across the finish line. And our composer, [Amelia Warner], she did an amazing job with the score and how she created the emotion out of these scenes and just gave you chills with the music that she wrote. And I remember telling Daisy and she said, “Yeah, fantastic, let’s do it.” And then later I learned that she actually is afraid of the open water and she had to go through tremendous amount of work physically, but also with herself, mentally.
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