We spoke to directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin about their controversial Netflix film Nyad starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster.
The Big Picture The new Netflix film Nyad, now in limited theatrical release, has been making some big waves. Starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, it tells the story of Diana Nyad who claims to have made the unassisted swim from Cuba to Florida in 2013 at the age of 64. As played by Bening, Nyad is a determined force to be reckoned with who won't be written off by the world.
BONNIE STOLL: Well, the experience is surreal. The entire process has been surreal. There were 40 of us actually on the entire expedition and, actually, it was Diana's dream which became all of our dream. It gave us such a sense of purpose to get her to the other shore. Diana doesn't need pushing, you know, she's going. If we were going on a 16-hour swim, practice swim, and we got back to the dock at 15 hours and 58 minutes, she's going out a minute and coming back a minute.
Jimmy, there was a moment where I was thinking of the part you play in Free Solo where it's watching something and seeing it and being unable to necessarily step in and prevent harm, but still having to be there and observe and that kind of playing out exactly in some of these swimming scenes.
I think I had a lot more fear than Diana herself had. Holding Diana back in the training program when we wanna go, we wanna go, but we're not getting the weather. She wants to do these long training swims and she finally understood that she's in the shape, she could do it right now. So let's just do five hour swims every day for a while until we get the doldrums. Three days in a row of pretty calm water. If you get two, you're lucky.
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