“I’m going to swim the English Channel,” Daisy Ridley’s Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle tells her father in the first trailer from Disney’s movie Young Woman in the Sea.
“I wasn’t asking!” she tells him. “Now, please pass the bread.”
“The thing that you love the most terrifies me,” says Trudy’s mom (Jeanette Hain).
On Thursday, the first trailer for the movie dropped at CinemaCon during Disney’s session, and to the public. See it above and check out the key art below.
If you loved the two-time Oscar-nominated Annette Bening-Jodie Foster swimming drama Nyad, here’s another true-life, female empowerment movie about a woman who never let the odds get in the way. “I came all this way, I might as well see England,” Trudy says in the trailer.
As Deadline first told you in February, Disney flipped the Jerry Bruckheimer production from Disney+ to a May 31 limited theatrical release. We’ve heard that the movie tested in the high 90s. “This is the highest-tested movie of my career,” Bruckheimer said in a pre-roll.
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The Jeff Nathanson-scripted, Joachim Rønning-directed drama chronicles the daring journey of the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. Ederle made the 21-mile swim in 1926. The daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan, Ederle was a competitive swimmer who won gold in the 1924 Olympics when she decided to attempt crossing the channel. She undertook the feat after first swimming 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, NJ, setting a record that stood for 81 years. She contracted with two newspapers and sold her story, thereby financing her quest. There was actually a race among women who would be first to cross as only five men had done so before.
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