Daisy Ridley to play first woman to ever swim the English Channel
Young Woman and the Sea, according to Deadline.The actress, who played Rey in the Star Wars Skywalker trilogy, is attached to the Disney+ project telling the story of the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) is on board to direct, from a script by Jeff Nathanson. The film will detail the life and achievement of Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, who made the groundbreaking 21-mile swim in 1926.Ederle was a competitive swimmer who won gold in the 1924 Olympics, and decided to attempt to swim across the channel after swimming 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, New Jersey.