Nick Krolland real-life Olympian Alexi Pappas are a winning duo in their new filmOlympic Dreams.
In a PEOPLE exclusive look at the first trailer for the film, Kroll, 41, stars as Ezra, a dentist who volunteers to work with athletes inside of the Olympic’s Athletes Village where he meets Penelope (Pappas), a cross country skier competing in the games.
Despite their chemistry, the pair run into trouble in their burgeoning relationship.
“I’m just afraid,” Ezra says, to which Penelope responds, “I wake up every day a little bit afraid, but its good fear, like afraid for how well it can go.”
As their journey together culminates in the height of the Olympic competition, Ezra realizes he’s fallen in love with Penelope.
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“I want to take more risks, that’s why I came to the Olympics,” he tells her. “You inspired me to do that.”
This is the first feature film ever shot at the Olympics and on-site in the Athletes Village. Pappas, her husband and co-writer Jeremy Teicher and Kroll had unprecedented access to the Olympic Village while making the movie.
Teicher also tells PEOPLE the team of filmmakers consisted of just three people: him, Pappas and Kroll.
“I was a one-person-crew responsible for directing, shooting, and recording sound all at once. We were filming in locations where nobody was expecting to find a camera: places like the Athlete Village laundry room, the figure skating warm-up area, and even in the medical clinic,” says Teicher. “It was important to keep a small footprint and adapt to the very active world around us. It was a technical challenge, for sure, but ultimately it felt like the purest filmmaking experience ever — where it’s just you and your friends capturing magic together.”
Olympics Dreamsis in theaters and on VOD on Feb. 14 from IFC Films.
source: people.com
