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Daisy Ridley is about to make a splash with her next project under Disney, a true-story drama about the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Young Woman and the Sea
Ridley is set to star in the Disney+ feature film as Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, who made the 21-mile swim in 1926 and set a record that stood for 81 years. Deadline reports that Daisy Ridley is in talks to star in the Disney live-action film Young Woman and the Sea, which will be directed by Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) and written by Jeff Nathanson (2019’s The Lion King). The film will be based on the book by Glenn Stout, which chronicles the amazing journey of the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. It will produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman, is intended...