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‘Young Woman And The Sea’: Read The Screenplay About The American Who Became First Woman To Swim Across The English Channel
Daisy Ridley stars in Young Woman and the Sea about American swimmer Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
For the uninitiated, the film took nearly 10 years to complete with various talent attached, multiple studios involved and endless financial roadblocks until the summer of 2022, when director Joachim Rønning( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kon-Tiki) was able to see it through. The screenplay was written by Rønning’s Pirates scribe Jeff Nathanson — whose swath of credits range from The Lion King and a pair of Rush Hour movies to Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal — and is based on Glenn Stout’s book Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World. “I was so baffled by that, because this was such a worldwide event when it happened a hundred years ago and, in many ways, changed women’s sports forever.
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