Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s biographical film premiered at the Telluride Film Fest and begins streaming November 3.
Annette Bening enlists Jodie Foster’s help to accomplish swimming goal she failed to achieve decades prior in the first trailer for Netflix’s fact-based film Nyad.
The biographical drama from directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin centers on marathon swimmer Diana Nyad (Bening) attempting to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage.
Foster plays the athlete’s coach and friend Bonnie Stoll in the movie that plays select theaters Oct. 20 and then hits the streaming platform November 3 after debuting at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month.
Bening replies, “I don’t believe in imposed limitations. The only one who gets to decide if I’m through is me.”
The directors addressed complaints from members of the swimming community over how the Cuba swim was executed. “We did our due diligence,” Vasarhelyi said. “This film is not about a record. It’s about a woman who wakes up at 60 and realizes she’s not done. And that woman has flaws.”