Nyad has recently been released on Netflix, and it’s a biographical film that recounts the story of how famed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad attempted and succeeded in swimming from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida in 2013 at the age of 64. The film stars Annette Bening as Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll who’s Nyad’s best friend and coach. The directors of the film were asked to break down how they filmed the particular swim scene as it’s painstakingly meticulous to get everything right, to be able to set the scene up and finally get the right conditions to recreate the moment.
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In the Vanity Fair video, directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin go through all the technical details that they had to get right, from the lighting design, the boat design, to the pool and platform in which they filmed the scene. Furthermore, they also explain how Annette Bening insisted on having no make-up except for when depicting how being underwater for 40 hours affects the face. Finally, they also talked about the dynamic between the actors, how they formed a friendship during the shoot and having conversations with the real Diana Nyad and Bonnie Stoll, and what it was like directing them.
(Video credit: Vanity Fair)
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