When Jodie Foster, 61, signed on to play trainer Bonnie Stoll in the Oscar-nominated movie Nyad, she had just wrapped filming on a decidedly different film, one where she played a slim, suited-up lawyer. She told the film’s directors that she planned to start training immediately, they told the Washington Post. “We never really heard anything more from her,” Jimmy Chin, who directed the film alongside his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, told the Washington Post.
“It was important to both actors that we not touch their bodies, as in touch up,” Vasarhelyi told the Washington Post. “They were committed to play women of their age.” The Post reported that part of what motivated Jodie to join the film's cast was the chance to portray, alongside Annette, older women who were 'badasses.'Jodie has approached aging the candor and vulnerability for years.