congratulations on the film.
Thank you. I forgot.
What's this?
That's so funny.
So the thing is like that, it put me up.
I was like, yeah, I did a video on.
I do that one.
my first question was, I think I kind of giggled
a little bit at this, but when Trudy was to, which is a kid,
she wants to swim around the ocean and she gets a hotdog as a prize.
And I laughed, and I was in my head for a couple minutes.
I was like, what did I get
as a kid for, like doing crazy things like swimming and stuff?
So I was gonna ask you, do you remember anything
as a kid with not necessarily swimming,
but a contest or something where you got a really weird prize?
Well, I remember having two older sisters was if they didn't want to go
and buy a chocolate bar, they'd go, if you can get there and back
because the shop is around the corner from my parents house.
If you can get there in about an hour time, you and I'll go, oh my God,
this is so exciting.
So it was things like that that were dangled in front of me.
And at the time
you think this is the most amazing thing, and then you realize it's
because your sister doesn't want to go to the shops?
and also, I feel like, did I even get a chocolate?
I think I just got like, a well done.
You did it really quickly.
so that's for. Yeah. Not real.
Not real rewards. Yeah.
I mean real, but not real.
Did you get your swimming badges when you were a kid?
There's, like the colored badges or.
I mean, I didn't get swimming.
That is, we went to gymnastics.
So I definitely you get your badge and you sat on your leotard,
and there's very cute picture of me and my sisters posing with our leotards.
I don't remember getting the swimming badges.
I do remember because the walk to because we said swim a Portchester
and the walk from school there, and you walk in your twos
and it's so exciting to go swimming.
I don't think I remember getting badges, you know,
I feel like we must have done I got like, yeah, certificates or something
or I don't think I got yellow, yellow, green, red kind of.
We got
should have got missed out.
Oh it's got them somewhere. Yeah.
in terms of the endurance for this, obviously swimming is
I mean, I remember watching, Annette Bening do it for Nyad recently.
And obviously from your point of view, you obviously did
Star Wars, which is lightsabers and so much endurance.
How did that differ with with this?
Because wacky was talking about why did you just do
it, wanted to see you doing it, and you had to get over your fear of it.
I mean, it's like chalk and cheese.
Honestly, when I first started training, I actually met Diana
Nyad a few weeks ago, which was so surreal and amazing
when I first started training Shavon Maria
O'Connor, who was my coach, who is a real life Olympian.
She said to me, there's
nothing else you can do that makes you a better swimmer but swim.
So with,
lightsaber work, I thought, okay, I cannot do kickboxing.
And that would make me better with reactions and all of that sort of stuff.
But with swimming, it's literally you have to swim.
And I was learning the front crawl essentially from scratch.
So it was a whole new skill.
I was learning, and I trained really hard
for three months, and then we filmed for three months.
We did the big two channel attempts at the end.
So all of that, both stamina wise for sprinting and then the endurance
thing, you know, usually I have time to recover in between times.
and it certainly was not that.
So that was all new
and then after we finished filming, I was like, thank you, I'm done.
And I have not been swimming again, like not once.
And obviously you're doing it like this.
And there's some of these like bar centered working earlier,
some biopics where, you know, people sing but they're singing to the person,
original person.
Whereas with this you're doing it, it really enhances.
And that's the thing I think firstly, Yoakam wanted to do it like that
anyway, and there's no way I wouldn't have wanted to do it for real.
so even with all of the fear and nerves, it still felt something
that was honoring her, but also on the big screen.
I just don't think we could have faked it.
You feel that this and what she.
She was doing something that had never been done before by a woman.
She was alone in this vast expanse of water for hours and hours and hours.
So even being able to tell a portion of that is so wonderful,
and you really certainly feel
the danger and the joy and the excitement and the exhaustion.
And then when she finally gets there,
it makes it all the more worthwhile, because I really feel as an audience.
You're on that journey with Trudy. Yeah.
Very quickly, before our wrap up, very.
What would I ask you about Star Wars in terms of
you're not going to tell me anything about writing anything else
but that? Rey as a character,
are you still surprised the impact that she's had over it?
And it's kind of reverberated through and had such a big general
on the generation in terms of as a young Star Wars
character, young female Star Wars character and all that kind of stuff, that
that's why people want her to come back.
Yes, it was.
It's honestly something I don't think about too much because,
you know, but
the response last year was so wonderful
that it was really I was really nervous.
at celebration before we were about to announce.
And I thought, people are not going to care or people are going to go, what?
Who you, And the response was unbelievable.
And it was interesting because even running up
to that, strangely, in the months before, had a lot of people say,
I'd really be interested to see what Rey was doing next.
so it's
all, yeah, it's, overwhelming and wonderful.
Fantastic. I wish you all the best with this. It's great.
Thank you so much for your time. But just to make a.
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