Netflix’s “Nyad” takes viewers on the within story of how famed marathon swimmer Diane Nyad swam throughout the Florida Strait — the waters between Cuba and Key West — at age 64.
The movie, primarily based on Nyad’s memoir “Discover a Approach: The Inspiring Story of One Girl’s Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream,” stars Annette Bening as the enduring swimmer as she educated to make the 110-mile trek by open waters and not using a protecting shark cage.
Bening instructed TODAY’s Hoda Kotb on Jan. 11 she instantly stated sure to the position, regardless of the psychological and bodily challenges that may include portraying a long-distance swimmer in her 60s.
“I learn (the script) and was simply so taken with Diana and her journey. That simply bought me in my intestine, and I really didn’t actually suppose it by,” Bening stated with amusing. “I simply I knew I needed to play it. I knew that this was a chance like no different and it actually proved to be that — however that’s one thing that I believe is sweet for us, proper? An enormous problem, one thing new. Fully took me into world I might by no means have imagined doing, enjoying a marathon swimmer.”
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