EXCLUSIVE: Moving out of the documentary space with Nyad — the true but lightly fictionalized story of Diane Nyad, an athlete who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s — director Elizabeth Chai Vasa…
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All heaped praise on Foster, but Vasarhelyi was especially effusive in her praise for Foster’s co-star, Annette Bening, who literally threw herself in at the deep end to play the title role. “It was really important to us to cast age-appropriately,” she said. “Diane Nyad succeeded at 64. Well, Annette is 64, and she’s a consummate professional, so we knew that, when we brought the part to her, she was going to have to really sit with it to see if she was willing to commit to it.
Asked why he was attracted to the project, producer Lazar referred to Nyad’s autobiography, “I love the book, he said. “I really love the idea that you can hold onto your dreams and achieve them at any age. So few movies are inspirational, and I think that most of us aren’t going to have a crazy dream to do something like she did and swim, for three consecutive days, over a hundred miles. But I love that she didn’t want to give up. The human spirit , and there’s so much of that in Diana’s story.
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