, the harrowing story of Trudy Ederle and the Olympic gold medalist’s determination to be the first woman to swim across the English Channel. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Rønning would be attracted to a woman bent on attaining the near-impossible, something that few men achieved — with some dying trying.
Rønning, first teamed with Espen Sandberg and more recently as a solo director, came from humble origins in Norway to become an eminently bankable Hollywood director. After debuting on the Salma Hayek-Pinault & Penelope Cruz picthe quest by Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Pacific in a raft made of balsa wood. The 101-day voyage was as perilous as one might imagine, and the film looked epic on a small budget, especially for a movie shot on the water.
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