Director of Netflix's Simone Biles documentary: 'It's awesome' to see her up close and personal

Katie Walsh got the accidental of a lifetime: pursuing Simone Biles passim the Paris Olympics.

The 27-year-old gymnast was making her instrumentality to the expansive signifier aft she was forced to miss respective Olympic events successful 2021 owed to experiencing the "twisties." She won conscionable 1 medal successful Tokyo, a bronze.

The unit was connected successful Paris, but Walsh, the manager of "Simone Biles: Rising" connected Netflix, said she was "calm, chill and collected."

"But I'm definite she was feeling the pressure," Walsh said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "I deliberation it would beryllium intolerable not to. As overmuch arsenic she does her precise best, and has done a truly bully occupation of managing each of the extracurricular expectations and benignant of tasks connected her, she's inactive the look of the Olympics and everyone was determination to spot her vie and everyone was determination to conscionable spot her, period."

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Simone Biles of the United States smiles during the nationalist anthem with her golden medal during the medal ceremonial for the vault connected the archetypal time of gymnastics lawsuit finals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games astatine Bercy Arena successful Paris connected Aug. 3, 2024. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)

Biles got her revenge, taking location 3 golds and a metallic successful Paris. Of course, she won 4 golds successful Rio successful 2016 and failed to medal successful a 5th lawsuit successful Paris. All successful all, Walsh said she considered it a precise palmy Olympics.

"She had said to me, I mean, we arsenic the outsiders enactment each these expectations for her to conscionable triumph everything each the time. But for her, I cognize squad and each astir were truthful important, that was what she was truly focused on. And that was wherever she truly wanted those. So I don't deliberation determination was adjacent an iota of disappointment successful her medal count," Walsh says.

Walsh got to spot it each up adjacent and personal. She has known Biles for astir 5 years, covering her successful some contention and practices. This, though, was a antithetic animal.

When asked what it was similar to spot Biles successful contention mode, Walsh enactment it bluntly: "It's awesome."

"I deliberation that the quality of our narration is that she feels comfy to beryllium who she is successful immoderate moment. So, we were with her arsenic she was getting acceptable her last moments successful a edifice country earlier she was leaving to spell compete, and the tension, it was precise tense… And I americium truthful grateful that she fto america successful for those moments, due to the fact that those are hard moments to let conscionable different radical into your space, and she did. We were capable to conscionable beryllium there, and it's ne'er a antagonistic happening with her. She's conscionable sometimes truly superior and truly aggravated due to the fact that she's astir to compete.

FILE - Simone Biles of the United States holds up her medals aft the women's creator gymnastics idiosyncratic apparatus finals astatine Bercy Arena during the 2024 Summer Olympics connected Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 successful Paris. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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"I could truly conscionable marvel successful what she's capable to bash erstwhile you're truly up close, and you spot however precocious and however accelerated and however choky she spins, I mean, it's similar you're like, yeah, nary I decidedly cannot bash that."

While Biles whitethorn not beryllium similar galore successful presumption of personage oregon diversion status, Walsh wants to archer radical she is inactive human.

"I deliberation the extremity end is to subordinate to her and erstwhile you spot idiosyncratic of her caliber competing and succeeding, successful the mode that she does, it's hard to link with that due to the fact that there's cipher other that tin bash it. She's each connected her ain successful that category," Walsh said. "But I deliberation erstwhile you're watching the film, you get a amended knowing of the idiosyncratic and the human, not the ace human. And, erstwhile you get to cognize her a small bit, you recognize that she is mean successful galore ways.

Gold medalist Simone Biles of Team United States poses connected the podium during the Artistic Gymnastics Women's All-Around Final medal ceremonial connected time six of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games astatine Bercy Arena connected Aug. 1, 2024 successful Paris. (Catherine Steenkeste/Getty Images)

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"She inactive has her ain struggles. and those struggles are existent and precise relatable. Because there's thing that astir of america spell done astatine immoderate point… and I deliberation getting to cognize her arsenic the idiosyncratic allows you to admit what she does connected the level truthful overmuch more, due to the fact that it conscionable makes it truthful overmuch much peculiar and unsocial and conscionable miraculous. I mean, she's capable to bash it nether truthful overmuch pressure, and with truthful galore eyes connected her and the expectations that are there, not conscionable for her arsenic an athlete. But for her arsenic a spokesperson and an activist. So it truly conscionable makes what she does adjacent much great."

The archetypal portion of the bid was released successful July; portion 2 comes retired Friday.

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