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 ...

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 ...

Manal Issa and Nathalie Issa, real life sisters who play a pair of Olympic swimming hopefuls, also sisters, said they weren’t at all aquatic when cast in the Sally El Hosaini film ‘The ...

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 ...

Manal Issa says Netflix should have cast Syrian actors and did not do justice to the real story Actor Manal Issa, right, pictured with sister and co-star Nathalie Issa, says she was not completely ...

Based on a true story, The Swimmers (12A) dramatizes the lives of sisters Yusra (Nathalie Issa) and Sara Mardini (Manal Issa), who were Olympic swimming hopefuls when they fled war-torn Syria in ...

The documentary will feature Manal and Nathalie Issa depicting Syrian sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini, alongside Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek, Syrian actor Kinda Alloush, and others The streaming ...

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