NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nathalie Issa, who plays Yusra. The Netflix movie "The Swimmers" tells the story of two sisters. They tease each other, as sisters do, and push each other's buttons.

"I said forget about it. I’m not gonna swim," Nathalie Issa told a Toronto Film Festival presser on Friday before she and her sister trained in a pool for their performances. By Etan Vlessing ...

Netflix’s The Swimmers, Sally El-Hosaini’s drama based on the real journey of two young sisters from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, earned a four-minute standing ovation at the ...

From our interview with Nathalie Issa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Among Netflix’s 2022 releases is a film called The ...

Champion swimmer Yusra Mardini was profoundly moved by the movie retelling of her epic journey from war-torn Syria to Germany, and then on to Olympic glory. New biographical drama The Swimmers ...

Netflix's Nathalie Issa never imagined she would learn how to swimNetflix's Nathalie Issa never imagined she would learn how to swim ...