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Kirsten Callaghan who plays the first British woman to swim the Channel in new film reveals she was 'traumatised' after she had to learn how to swim in icy water and combat seasickness, seaweed - and EELS
Kirsten Callaghan, playing the first British woman to swim the English Channel, was left traumatised after she had to learn how to swim long distances in icy cold water and combat seasickness.
Ms Callaghan, 32, underwent three months of gruelling stamina training off of Brighton Pier and pushed her body to the limit to play Mercedes Gleitze (pictured) in forthcoming film Vindication Swim Ms Callaghan, pictured at the Vindication Swim premiere last week, spent the next two years shooting in East Sussex's freezing waters without a body double or any camera trickery, the physicality of which she found 'tough The film, released next Friday, tells the rousing story of the forgotten sporting heroine's record-breaking swim that saw her emerge, barely conscious, from the water at St Margaret's Bay, near Dover, on October 8, 1927.
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