'Star Wars' alum Daisy Ridley talks swapping Jedi training for swim training to play the great Gertrude Ederle in Joachim Rønning's uplifting biopic 'Young Woman and the Sea.'
With help from Olympic medalist Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, the "Star Wars" alum swapped Jedi training for swim training to play Gertrude Ederle in Joachim Rønning's biopic.Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog.
To play an Olympic swimmer, Ridley trained like one. “Swimming fitness is unlike any other fitness,” O’Connor says. “You can't replicate it in running or cycling. You have to be in the water doing those miles, putting in that time.” Ridley did a mix of speed and endurance swim training, building up strength through aerobic and threshold fitness plans. “We were doing 2k per session at least three, four times a week in the lead-up to production.” O’Connor adds.
Practice occurred in pools in Bulgaria and the actual open sea. Yep, no green screens or CGI here: Ridley’s ocean scenes were filmed in the open waters — specifically, the Black Sea, where she spent the final two weeks of production stifling panic. “Oftentimes the buildup is worse than the thing,” she says of the mental preparation. “I've done a number of physical things in films that I'm not entirely comfortable with, but you just have to do it.
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