‘Young Woman And The Sea’ Director Joachim Rønning & Producer Jerry Bruckheimer On Portraying a Powerful Female Athlete: “This Is The Highest Testing Movie I’ve Ever Made”
deadline.comThe road Young Woman and the Sea has taken to the screen reads not unlike the hero’s journey it seeks to portray.The film about American swimmer Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, took nearly ten years to complete with various talent attached, numerous studios involved and financial roadblocks to overcome, until in the summer of 2022, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil director Joachim Rønning and Star Wars’ actor Daisy Ridley were finally able to bring Trudy’s story across the finish line.
Seeing the finished film, says producer Jerry Bruckheimer, made it all worth the effort. “This is the highest testing movie I’ve ever made, and I’ve made some pretty big hits,” says Bruckheimer. “It really captured an audience in the right way.”DEADLINE: This film was a long time coming.
What was it about this story that spoke to you and made you so passionate about making it? JERRY BRUCKHEIMER: It’s the emotion of this young girl who goes through all these trials and tribulations to win and achieve her dream.
When you get to the end and you see the real parade, you say, “Oh my god, this is real.” This girl was forgotten. That was what really excited me about this.
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