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Starring: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans, Ethan Jones Romero, Luke Cosgrove, Jeena Yi, Eric T. Miller, Karly Rothenberg, Marcus Young, Garland Scott, Anna Harriette Pittman
Story:
Netflix bio-sports drama directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Nyad (2023) recounts a riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad (Annette Bening). Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her, the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the “Mount Everest” of swims. Determined to become the first person to finish the swim without a shark cage, Diana goes on a four-year journey with her best friend and coach, Bonnie Stoll (Jodie Foster), and a dedicated sailing team.
We’ll add the best quotes once the movie is released and we’ve had a chance to watch it, but for now, here’s a small selection.
Quotes:
Diana Nyad: Listen to this. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Bonnie Stoll: Hey, what’s that?
Diana Nyad: What?
Bonnie Stoll: That. You got raccoon eyes. Have you been swimming?
Diana Nyad: Yes. Yes, I have.
Bonnie Stoll: Wow. Look at you. Swimmer. Okay. Wow. What’s it been like thirty years since you put on a pair of goggles?
Diana Nyad: That’s right.
Bonnie Stoll: How did it feel?
Diana Nyad: Great. Came right back to me.
Bonnie Stoll: Great exercise at your age. Low impact. Easy on the joints.
Diana Nyad: Yeah.
Diana Nyad: I want to do it.
Bonnie Stoll: Do what?
Diana Nyad: Cuba to Florida. My swim.
Bonnie Stoll: Huh? You’re hilarious. Serve.
Diana Nyad: No. I’m not kidding, Bonnie. I’m going to do it.
Bonnie Stoll: No. That’s insane. You tried that when you were twenty-eight, and you did not make it when you were twenty-eight. You’re sixty.
Diana Nyad: Yeah. I don’t believe in imposed limitations. I don’t believe in any limitations. And that’s the reason to do it, not the other way around.
Diana Nyad: I started with twenty minutes, then twenty more just to see. And I am up to four and five hours in the pool.
Bonnie Stoll: I don’t understand. Are you having like a mental breakdown or something?
Diana Nyad: My mind has never been clearer.
Diana Nyad: Don’t you get it? The mind. This is what I was missing when I was younger. I’ve got it now.
Bonnie Stoll: The mind does not swim a hundred miles across the ocean. Right? The body does.
Diana Nyad: Yes. That’s the other piece of it.
Bonnie Stoll: Oh, there’s another piece?
Diana Nyad: Yes. I need to get myself functioning at the highest level.
Diana Nyad: You’re going to be my coach.
Bonnie Stoll: That’s why you wanted to play ping pong. You never want to play ping pong.
Diana Nyad: No. No, Bonnie
Bonnie Stoll: No! Absolutely not. No, no, no, no, no.
Diana Nyad: You said I needed to do something to get out of my funk.
Bonnie Stoll: I meant you should sign up for speed dating, or get a therapist, not come out of a thirty year retirement for some dangerous, absurd fantasy.
Diana Nyad: I am doing it. I’m not done. I’ve more in me, and so do you.
Diana Nyad: Come on, don’t you want to be fully engaged, fully awake? Your soul ignited by a purpose, a mission? It would be an amazing ride. Think about it. You and me, a great adventure. You were born to coach. And a coach needs an athlete.
Bonnie Stoll: No! No. No. Serve.
Diana Nyad: Okay. Well, I’m doing a test swim down in Mexico. Come, let me show you what I got. Eight hours of serious currents in the open ocean.
Diana Nyad: The only one who gets to decide if I’m through is me.
Diana Nyad: Okay, it’s just a little swim.
Diana Nyad: It’s one hundred miles, or sixty hours of constant swimming. But what I’m most afraid of is sharks and man-of-war.
Diana Nyad: I just know I can do it, and I couldn’t do it without you.
Bonnie Stoll: Alright. Okay.
John Bartlett: What you want to do has never been done.
Bonnie Stoll: And especially not for a woman. Especially not for someone your age.
John Bartlett: Get her out!
Bonnie Stoll: You got to breathe. Diana, breathe. Now.
John Bartlett: I think we have a window.
Diana Nyad: Four tries and four failures.
Bonnie Stoll: You really don’t get it, do you? You don’t even think of me!
Diana Nyad: Of course I think about you.
Bonnie Stoll: [to Diana] I watched you die. But this isn’t about you, okay? This is about me, for once!
Diana Nyad: Imagine knowing you could do something that no one else could do.
Diana Nyad: I know the world wants me to shut my mouth, and sit down, and wait to die! But I can’t.
Bonnie Stoll: Diana! You got this!
Bonnie Stoll: There’s no one more Nyad than you.
