Christopher Eccleston has joined the Disney+ film ‘Young Woman and the Sea’. The 58-year-old actor has signed on to star in the new movie alongside Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Harvey and Stephen Graham. The film is being directed by Joachim Ronning and is currently in production. The movie, which is based on the book by Glenn Stout, tells the remarkable story of Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle (Ridley) – who became the first woman ever to swim across the English Channel in 1926. Ederle was the daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan and won gold at the 1924 Olympic Games. She made the attempt to cr…