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Lesley Paterson competed in triathlon despite excruciating pain from broken shoulder to fund BAFTA-winning movie

It’s been an incredible couple of days for Lesley Paterson, who took home the Best Adapted Screenplay trophy at the BAFTA Awards earlier this week for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front”. The Oscar-nominated movie is an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel of the same name published in 1929. While the script of the movie has been getting some richly-deserved plaudits, the backstory of what the five-time world champion triathlete Paterson had to go through to get the movie made is even more remarkable. The story goes that in 2016, Paterson crashed her bike and broke her shoulder just one day before she was to compete in a triathlon. She needed to win the event in Costa Rica to use the winner’s cheque for making the movie. She opened up about that excruciating experience to Th...