Young Woman and the Sea Trailer: Daisy Ridley undertakes a daring adventure

If you loved watching Diana Nyad's conquest in swimming from Cuba to Florida against all odds in the Oscar-nominated film Nyad, then here is another women empowerment film based on a similar story. Walt Disney Studios released the trailer for Young Woman and the Sea about swimmer Gertrude Ederle, an American competitive swimmer.

The 2.16-minute-long trailer shows Daisy Ridley stars as Gertrude Ederle who undertakes a daring mission to swim 21 miles across the English channel. Even when her father refuses to encourage her, she carries on with her initial plan. Being the 1920s, she garners a fair share of doubt from everyone around her and the rest of the trailer shows how she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to complete the staggering achievement.

The story chronicles the daring journey of the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. Ederle made the 21-mile swim from France to England in 1926. The daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan, Ederle was a competitive swimmer who won gold in the 1924 Olympics when she decided to attempt crossing the channel.

Young Woman and the Sea, which also stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Christopher Eccleston, and Glenn Fleshler, is directed by Joachim Rønning and written by Jeff Nathanson, based on the book “Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World” by Glenn Stout.

Young Woman and the Sea is scheduled to receive a limited theatrical release by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on May 31, 2024.