Daisy Ridley trained with Olympian for swimming role
Daisy Ridley spent months training with Olympian Siobhan-Marie O’Connor for her new role as a marathon swimmer. The 'Star Wars' actress plays plays the lead role in 'Young Woman and the Sea' - a biopic about Gertrude Ederle, an American swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English channel in 1926, and spent months completing intense training in the Black Sea with British silver medal winner Siobhan. Director Joachim Ronning told Variety: "I wanted to be on the ocean. I wanted to be in the real elements with Daisy Ridley swimming through the currents and cold water ... "[Daisy]...