‘Nyad’ trailer: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster star in inspirational sports drama [Watch]
Days after its well-received debut at the Telluride Film Festival, Netflix has released the first trailer for “Nyad,” the inspirational sports drama that has four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening and two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster in the heat of the nascent awards race.
Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin – the Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers behind “Free Solo” who are making their feature debut with this new film – “Nyad” focuses on long-distance swimmer, author, and motivational speaker Diana Nyad, who swam from Cuba to Florida without assistance in 2013 at the age of 64. Bening plays the controversial Nyad, with Foster starring as her coach, Bonnie Stoll. Both actresses won raves for their performances after the film’s debut at the Telluride Film Festival, with many awards pundits and experts earmarking each for future Oscar nominations.
If that were to happen, and if “Nyad” is the film for which Bening wins her first Oscar, it would be a fitting conclusion for the star. As mentioned in the trailer, Nyad tried and failed to swim from Cuba to Florida four times at various points in her life before finally succeeding at the age of 64. Bening is a four-time nominee; she’ll be 65 at the 2024 Oscars.
Written by Julia Cox and based on Nyad’s own memoir, “Nyad” also stars Rhys Ifans as the swimmer’s navigator and Anna Harriette Pittman as a young Diana. Other cast members include Ethan Jones Romero, Luke Cosgrove, Jeena Yi, and Eric T. Miller.
“Nyad” will next screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is in theaters on October 20 and hits Netflix on November 3.
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