Bening and costar Jodie Foster reveal the intensive training, tight bonding, and mental endurance that their stirring biopic required: “I don’t know how she did it.”
in what marks their narrative directorial debut. Oscar winners for 2018’sthe documentarians had been looking to try their hand at fiction filmmaking and were presented with a story rather neatly matching their established cinematic interests. “We love telling these stories where somebody’s pushing the edge of the human experience,” says Chin, a professional mountain athlete. “We hope when audiences leave the theater, they feel like they’ve gotten an expanded perspective of the human experience.
Nyad has been a noted athlete since the 1970s, when her swims around Manhattan, New York, and in the Caribbean brought her national attention. At the age of 28, she attempted to swim from Havana to Key West, in the aftermath of the Kennedy-era travel restrictions being lifted, but, in part due to inclement weather, could not complete the task. She went on to write books and launch motivational speaking tours, but her athletic career faded as she got into her 30s and 40s.
The film makes this case, as do Bening and Foster, whose chemistry is so irresistibly lived-in you’ll be stunned to learn it’s the first movie they’ve ever made together. “Annette is a scrappy San Diego girl, a no-frills team player who could probably whip up dinner for 20 off a campfire,” Foster says. “She’s effortlessly easy, loves big drooling dogs—me too—and doesn’t suffer any BS in the work department. I just loved her immediately.
“Annette faced all the hardest challenges. Swimming in the water for hours and hours, stomaching salt water, fluctuating body temperatures, wearing that weird silicone mask, long hours in every weather condition, day and night—and all of it in a bathing suit,” Foster says. “That’s my worst nightmare.” She remembers worrying about her costar from up above in the boat, as Bening just kept going in the Caribbean Sea off the windy coast of the Dominican Republic, where production took place.
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