‘No news ahead’ received the Oscar for best international film tonight at this edition of the Hollywood awards, but Netflix’s German film about the First World War has an intrastory, that of lesley paterson.
british athlete, five-time triathlon world champion, twice crossed the ITU world champion and three-time XTERRA triathlon world championloves cinema and has an impeccable resume, which now includes an award Bafta and four prizes Oscarsincluding Best International Film, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Original Score.
Athletics is his life and cinema is the reason why he runs. As a child, he ran barefoot to imitate Zola Budd, the South African who broke the world record for 5,000 meters without shoes, although he also tried rugby. competed with Stirling County Rugby Clubas the only girl in a club of 250 children, but in 2012 she had to leave it because she couldn’t compete with the boys and her father encouraged her to train for triathlon.
In 1997 he won the Scottish Youth Championship and in 2000 he was silver at the Duathlon Junior World Championships, but failed to qualify for Olympic Games and to compete with 2002 Commonwealth Games and after a successful career as a junior triathlete decided it was time to focus on film.
He decided to bet on his other great passion, the cinema. She majored in English and Drama, received a Master’s in theater in San Diego, and became known Ian Stokell, producer and screenwriter. “I was making another film and I auditioned for him. We connected very well. He loves triathlons. He is a great fan of the sport like me,” he explained to the BBC.
Stokell encouraged him to write and together they formed their own production company, although it wasn’t until 2006 that everything changed. That year they bought the rights to the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, ‘All is quiet at the front’, where every year they have to pay about $15,000. The film was made into a movie in 1930, but both wanted to remake it using the latest technology and only succeeded for 16 years.
A DASH AND A SHOULDER
Rights and their goals require a lot of money and paterson decided to return to triathlon to raise funds. In 2011 World Cup winner and when he stepped off the podium he made his goals clear: “Now I want an Oscar.” He invested $20,000 in prize money to renew the rights for another year, but in 2015, when they were sold for the tenth time, the athlete needed $10,000 more, which led him to bet on a victory in XTERRA Costa Rica (1.5 km of swimming, 30 km of mountain biking and 11 km of running).
“That was my last time. The day before the race I fell off my bike and broke my shoulder. What I couldn’t do was swim. I tried one arm and it wasn’t too bad. The worst that could happen is that I retire me “So I started and it was okay. I talked to my husband and he said, ‘Well, you’re very good at one-armed water. Why don’t you try swimming with one arm? “Paterson told the BBC. Against all odds, he won, and five years later Netflix he commissioned the project with Edward Berger as director.
“The dedication it takes to play sports at that level, the passion you need, the fire in your belly… You can’t be as good at sports as I am and stay at it for years without really loving process. I don’t know. If you’re going to make a film about me, it has to contain something else, something about resilience,” he told the BBC.
In 2018 he won two more world titles, XTerra and Triathlon Cross, and after that, with his wife. Simon Marshall, promoted a training method. Now, Lesley Paterson will continue to pair sport and cinema.
Source: La Verdad
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