Annette Bening has candidly discussed her own experiences as a young actress in Hollywood.
The Jerry And Marge Go Large star, 65, was once told she was ‘too big and loud’ as she switched from performing on stage to on screen at the age of 30.
She told The Guardian: ‘I didn’t know the first thing. But I did know how to act. It felt very funny to speak very quietly, very funny not to fill a room with your voice.
‘They would always say: “You’re going to be too big and too loud – and, by the way, you also put on 10lb.” That was what they said about the camera – that it made you look heavier. It’s in these piquant details that you remember how fat-phobic the 90s were.’
Anette also acknowledged the pressure to remain eternally young: ‘I remember, maybe when I was 35, people talking about how I was ageing.
Annette Bening has candidly discussed her own experiences as a young actress in Hollywood
‘Even in your 30s, there were those articles. Now, when I hear people worrying about it at 50, I think: what?’
By the time Annette was 30 she had filmed her breakthrough role in The Grifters, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.
And in a career now spanning more than four decades, she has received many accolades, including a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globes as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and four Academy Awards.
Annette’s most recent project was Netflix series Nyad which was released in November.
NYAD dropped a new trailer for the Diana Nyad biopic which debuts in theaters on October 20 and streams on Netflix on November 1.
The film follows the journey of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad as she attempts a 100-mile ocean swim from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida .
Annette Bening, 65, plays Diana Nyad who originally gained fame when she swam 28 miles around Manhattan in 1975 at age 26 and for her 102 mile swim in 1979 at age 30 from the Bahamas to Juno Beach, Florida.
The film is based on Diana Nyad’s 2015 memoir, Find A Way. It follows the 64-year-old swimming legend on her quest to achieve her lifelong dream of competing a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
Jodie Foster, 60, plays Bonnie Stoll, her friend and coach, who alongside a sailing team, guides Nyad on her four year journey to become the first person to complete the swim without the help of a shark cage.
The Jerry And Marge Go Large star, 65, was once told she was ‘too big and loud’ as she switched from performing on stage to on screen at the age of 30
Nyad also stars Rhys Ifans, Ethan Jones Romero, Luke Cosgrove, Jeena Yi and Eric T. Miller.
A synopsis from Netflix describes the sports drama as a ‘remarkable true story of tenacity, friendship and the triumph of the human spirit.’
When the trailer begins, Bening is reading a self-help book as says, ‘Listen to this. What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’
It then cuts to Foster who says: ‘Oh God. Not that again.’
After the Netflix logo appears the trailer shows Bening as Nyad, watching her younger self on the Johnny Carson show.
On the show she tells the talk show host that what she really wants to do is a 60-hour swim from Cuba to Florida.
Now in her 60s, this ignites the desire in her to attempt her lifelong goal again for the first time since she was 28-years-old.
Stoll tells her that it is impossible, adding: ‘You did not make it when you were 28, now you’re 60.’
Nyad responds ‘I don’t believe in self-imposed limitations. The only one that gets to decide if I am done is me.’
Epic quest: The first official trailer for Nyad dropped on Thursday. It is the Diana Nyad biopic which debuts in theaters on October 20 and streams on Netflix on November 1
Based on memoir: The film is based on Diana Nyad’s 2015 memoir, Find a Way and it follows the 64-year-old swimming legend on her quest to achieve her lifelong dream of competing a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida
The trailer then shows a montage of scenes of Nyad training for the swim and being told that what she’s trying to do has never been done, ‘especially not for a woman, especially not for someone your age.’
The trailer then kicks into the high drama of her attempting the swim four times and failing four times.
‘Imagine knowing you could do something that no one else can do,’ Nyad says over a scene of her diving into the ocean at night.
The film was directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the filmmakers known for the Oscar-winning 2018 climbing documentary Free Solo.
Nyad completed her swim on September 5, 2013.