Tilda Cobham-Hervey And Stephen Graham Sign up for Daisy Ridley In Disney’s ‘Younger Girl And The Sea’

EXCLUSIVE: I Am Girl celebrity Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Stephen Graham are set to co-star reverse Daisy Ridley in Disney’s Younger Girl and the Sea. Joachim Rønning is on board to direct with Jeff Nathanson writing the script and Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman generating. The movie will premiere on Disney+.

It’s in accordance with the e-book by way of Glenn Stout that chronicles the bold adventure of the primary girl, Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle (Ridley), to ever swim around the English Channel in 1926. The daughter of a German butcher from Ny, Ederle used to be a aggressive swimmer who received gold within the 1924 Olympics when she determined to try crossing the channel. She undertook the feat after first swimming 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, NJ, atmosphere a report that stood for 81 years. She reduced in size with two newspapers and offered her tale, thereby financing her quest. There used to be in reality a race amongst ladies who could be first to move as most effective 5 males had completed so ahead of. Cobham-Hervey will play her sister.

Cobham-Hervey is coming off her critically-acclaimed position as musician and activist Helen Reddy in I Am Girl. Her different fresh credit come with Lodge Mumbai and Burn. She is repped by way of CAA and Nameless Content material.

Easiest recognized for roles in Boardwalk Empire and Peaky Blinders, Graham used to be maximum lately observed in Wonder’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage and the Tom Hanks Global Struggle II pic Greyhound. He’s repped by way of ICM Companions and LINK Leisure.