Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster is in the Dominican Republic for the filming of the Netflix biography on the life of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad. In the film, Annette Bening is Diana Nyad. Foster is playing Bonnie Stoll, in the role of coach and longtime friend of the American swimmer. Nyad in 2013 became the first person to complete a 110-mile swim from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida without the protection of a shark cage. At the time, she was 64 years old. Previously Nyad had swum around the length of Manhattan, or 28 miles.
The film is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, both known for their outstanding documentary work.
Foster and Bening join an increasing string of Hollywood stars who have been filming in the Dominican Republic. The DGCine, the local film agency, reports Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliff among some of the names of leading actors performing here.
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The Wrap
6 June 2022