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Hilary Swank Says Desire to Tell Stories Same, ‘No Matter Who President Is’

August 10, 2019 Mary Comments Off

One day after President Donald Trump launched an attack against “racist” Hollywood – a tirade that appeared to be inspired by the upcoming film “The Hunt,” starring Hilary Swank – the actress told reporters at the Locarno Film Festival that it’s “important to celebrate our differences” and that the president’s divisive politics haven’t changed her intent to tell meaningful stories.

“My desire to tell certain stories has always been the same, no matter who the president is,” she said. “The choices that I’ve made pretty much inform who I am as a person, and that’s not going to change no matter what’s happening.”

Swank co-stars in the upcoming Blumhouse film about a group of strangers who wake up in a forest, only to discover they’re being hunted for sport by rich vacationers. Universal suspended its marketing campaign for “The Hunt” in the wake of last week’s shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, while Fox News and other conservative outlets have criticized the film ahead of its Sep. 27 release.

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Day 3 – 72nd Locarno Film Festival

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Hilary attended the Leopard Club Award during the 72nd Locarno Film Festival on August 9 in Locarno, Switzerland. She received the prestigious Leopard Club Award, which is the festival’s lifetime achievement award, in recognition of her work.

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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Hilary Swank to Receive Locarno Festival Honor

July 17, 2019 Mary Comments Off

Two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank will be honored at the 2019 Locarno International Film Festival with a lifetime achievement award.

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.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Oscar Winner Hilary Swank Joins ‘The Hunt’ At Universal

July 10, 2019 Mary Comments Off

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/

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Hilary Swank says filming in Australia ‘almost like being on a different planet’

May 30, 2019 Mary Comments Off

In the American film industry today, actors don’t come much more credible or committed than Hilary Swank. This is a judgment that would be endorsed by almost everybody, including the voters at the Oscars, who gave her the Best Actress award for Boys Don’t Cry in 2000 and again for Million Dollar Baby in 2005.

Since this double triumph, Swank has moved in and out of the spotlight, dropping out of showbusiness entirely for a few years in the mid-2010s in order to care for her sick father. The film she’s discussing today, the independent science-fiction thriller I Am Mother, was shot in Adelaide in 2017 not long after she returned to work.

At the time, Swank was juggling two other projects, which coincidentally share with I Am Mother the theme of parents and children—the feature What They Had, where she starred as a woman whose mother (Blythe Danner) is afflicted with Alzheimer’s, and the TV series Trust, where she played the mother of kidnapped oil heir John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson).

“It was kind of a mad rush to get them all done around the same time,” she recalls over the phone from New York. “But it was definitely an entertaining ride.”

Swank’s performances suggest a highly focused, level-headed personality behind them, and this is borne out in conversation. Her tone is friendly and straightforward, her answers carefully considered, suggesting that she approaches being interviewed as seriously as every other aspect of her job.

“I don’t take roles because I see them as being Academy Award worthy,” she says when asked specifically about her past success and how it affects her current career choices.

While she’s grateful for the recognition, what she looks for are characters that will challenge her — that call on her to rethink how she walks in the world, as she puts it, in both a figurative and literal sense.

As she points out, in I Am Mother she plays a supporting though crucial role, given that she’s one of only two main cast members whose faces are visible on screen. Continue reading Hilary Swank says filming in Australia ‘almost like being on a different planet’