The 45-year-old actress looked stunning in an asymmetrical Giorgio Armani cocktail dress, that featured a sparkly ruffled blue skirt underneath a more structural waist and bust in shades of black, cream and blue.
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I appreciate that it seems so quick! But it actually took much more than a few years. I started acting at age fifteen. Ten years later I won my first Academy Award for Boys Don’t Cry (1999). Five years after that I received the Oscar for Million Dollar Baby (2004), so I was actually a “10-year overnight success”. Regardless, no matter what your dreams or goals in art, commerce or life, I believe only tenacity, hard work, grit, determination and perseverance can get you across the finish line. Of course you also need a healthy dose of good luck and a support team to finish in style.
Let’s go back to those two Oscar-winning roles. Starting with Boys Don’t Cry, the story of a trans man which must have presented a significant challenge for your performance. How did you set about portraying the inner drama of a person whose body and identity are somehow different?
It all started with me zeroing in on something that had nothing to do with gender: the desire to love and be loved. That is something we can all connect to and is not limited by any identity, race, gender or creed. That’s where we started Brandon Tina’s journey, and in the end, that’s what it’s really all about. It’s incredibly tragic and horrific that anyone, anywhere is murdered because of how they choose to live their life, express themselves, or find and give love.
Five years later came another big challenge, again requiring you to transform your body. You put on nineteen pounds of muscle to play boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood. What can you tell us about the experience?
It actually was 23 pounds! I know this as every single one of them was hard fought! Pushing your body to the limits is one of the best ways you can learn about yourself. What I learned training and competing in sports in my past and in preparing for that role is that our mind is our biggest obstacle. It’s such a cliché but it’s undeniably true. WE are the only thing standing in the way of our own success. Once we learn how to ignore or not believe our self-doubt and negative thinking, our potential skyrockets.
Taken together, the roles you have played make up an impressive gallery of unconventional female figures. What are the crucial criteria for you in accepting or rejecting a part?
I actually see them as conventional females. We are all in some way underdogs, wrestling with our own demons and trying to find and pursue our dreams, whatever they may be. We just don’t always see these types of women in movies. Thankfully that’s changing! To me these are women who overcome or learn to benefit from their perceived or real limitations and step into new identities of who they are and what they are capable of. To me, this is the exciting journey each of us makes in life.
When you started out as an actress, was there anyone in particular you admired or wanted to emulate?
As far as the skill of acting, everyone says this, but they say it for a reason: Meryl Streep. But I’ve also greatly admired Ingrid Bergman, Debra Winger, as well as actors like Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman and Sean Penn.
Apart from the two titles already mentioned, is there any other film – perhaps one which didn’t get the success it deserved – to which you feel particularly attached?
Yes, Freedom Writers (2007) and Conviction (2010). Both are true stories about incredibly inspiring and compassionate women who saved lives through their belief in themselves and others.
The movies have given you a lot, but you also showed a great deal of courage when you took a long time away from your career to look after your sick father. A decision which once again shows great character. What are the human qualities that you risk losing, once aboard the Hollywood rollercoaster?
The same that anyone can if they lose sight of what’s really important in life and choose to let success go to their head.
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The trailer opens with Crystal asking convenience store employees what state they are in. When one employee informs her that they are in Arkansas, Crystal grabs a rifle and shoots the two workers.
After she walks out of the store, she pulls a license plate off of a car that shows they are not in Arkansas.
The trailer then cuts to Swank’s character in a business meeting. “We pay for everything, so this country belongs to us,” she says as snapshots of her privileged life play. When a man in the meeting says their business is “hunting human beings for sport,” Swank replies, “They’re not human beings.”
Clips of the 12 hunted individuals waking up in the clearing then play. They soon learn that they were selected to be hunted by the globalist elites, though they are determined to escape. “So it’s true,” says Crystal. “We’re being hunted.”
A montage shows the 12 victims doing everything in their power to survive. Crystal takes on a leadership role and kills off every hunter until she makes her way to Swank’s character, the ringleader of the elites.
“Of all the people you kidnapped, of all the people you kill, you picked the wrong game,” says Crystal in a voiceover as clips show the characters violently under attack.
The trailer concludes as Crystal approaches Swank’s character. “Lady, you’re crazy,” Crystal says before she violently attacks.
The Hunt is in theaters Sept. 27. Watch the full trailer below.
Swank will receive the festival’s Leopard Club Award, given to “a major film personality whose work has made a lasting impact on the collective imagination.”
Making the announcement Wednesday, Lili Hinstin, Locarno’s new artistic director, called Swank “an actress whose roles and life story are emblematic of female strength and tenacity.”
Swank will attend Locarno to receive the award, which will be presented at the Swiss festival Aug. 9. Locarno will also screen the two films for which Swank won Oscars: Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 drama Boys Don’t Cry, in which Swank plays transgender teen Brandon Teena, who was raped and murdered in Nebraska in 1993; and Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (2004), in which Swank plays a female boxer who, after a brutal fight, is left a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
Swank has recently attracted attention for her television roles. She starred on the FX drama Trust, and has been tapped to topline Netflix’s upcoming space drama series Away as Emma Green, an American astronaut who must leave her husband and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking on a treacherous mission. Swank began her career in television with a recurring role in the late 1990s on Beverly Hills, 90210.
But the actress hasn’t abandoned the big screen. Swank starred in Grant Sputore’s Australian sci-fi thriller I Am Mother, which Netflix picked for North America out of Sundance, and Blumhouse recently cast her in its upcoming politically charged action-thriller The Hunt.
Swank is repped by WME, Management 360 and Jackoway Austen.
The 2019 Locarno Film Festival runs Aug. 7-17.
Two-time Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank is set to star in The Hunt, the Universal and Blumhouse political action-thriller from screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse. Swank joins previously announced co-stars Ike Barinholtz, Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts, Justin Hartley, and Glenn Howerton.
Z for Zachariah helmer Craig Zobel is directing the film, which explores escalating aggressiveness between the political right and left in America. The pic hits theaters September 27.
Producers are Jason Blum for his Blumhouse Productions and Lindelof for his White Rabbit shingle. Cuse and Zobel are executive producers. Universal execs Erik Baiers and Jay Polidoro are overseeing the project on behalf of the studio.
Source: https://deadline.com/
