The Doctor is Coming to Disney+: Doctor Who Star Joins Daisy Ridley’s Upcoming Disney+ Movie
Christopher Eccleston, former star of Doctor Who, has been cast alongside Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker‘s Daisy Ridley in the upcoming Disney+ movie written by Jeff Nathanson, Young Woman and the Sea. It is based on the book of the same name by Glenn Stout. Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Hotel Mumbai) and Stephen Graham (The Irishman, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Peaky Blinders) will also be featured in the movie.
Young Woman and the Sea tells the true story of Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, the daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan, who was a competitive swimmer and won a gold medal in the Olympics in 1924. She swam 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, NJ, a world record that would not be broken for 81 years. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim the 21-miles across the English Channel. Only five men had done so before. She once help five world records.
Eccleston played the ninth iteration of the Doctor when Doctor Who returned in 2005. He was on the series for one season before his controversial departure, which her eventually explained was because he “didn’t enjoy the environment and the culture.”
Christopher Eccleston as Doctor Who. Courtesy of BBC/Big Finish.
