'Nyad' tells a platonic love story against the backdrop of a classic sports tale

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A decade after she became the first person to swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, without a shark cage, Diana Nyad’s epic journey has been chronicled in a highly anticipated — and contested — biopic that premiered Friday on Netflix.

“We tried to shoot big and expansive to give people a sense of the scope and scale of the environment she was in, but we also wanted to shoot something intimate that brought people into Diana’s internal struggle.” By spending a lot of time with the real-life Nyad and Stoll, who are both out lesbians, in Los Angeles, Bening and Foster were also able to develop their own version of the pair’s platonic friendship, which is the beating heart of the story.

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