How Hilary Swank's Late Father Inspired Her Character in 'Ordinary Angels' (Excl

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00:00 >> The last time you and I talked you're about to give

00:04 birth now you've got twins look a lot more tired right now

00:08 right. But I also have a lot more joy and a lot more love

00:12 you announce their name on love day is there a significance

00:15 behind that. Yeah, well I was a young I met a Syrian refugee

00:20 when I went to Lebanon, a young girl who just so brave and so

00:23 courageous and so full of light and then my son home who is

00:29 that's that's considered the first universal sound and the

00:33 sound that is unites people as beautiful.

00:36 >> I named my favorite food, I got peanut butter. Yeah,

00:40 >> you'll need to grab a tissue with your popcorn for Hillary

00:41 or.

00:46 and reacher himself Alan Richson's new movie ordinary

00:50 angels out tomorrow. It's based on the true story of Sharon

00:53 Stevens a struggling hairdresser who helps a father

00:56 get his daughter a life changing liver transplant.

00:59 >> We're going to save this girl you hear me this is our

01:01 last chance if we don't take it.

01:03 >> Michelle dies, I've seen that firsthand with my father

01:06 who received a lung transplant.

01:08 >> You did this movie Hillary just 5 months after your dad

01:11 passed. How was that.

01:13 >> You'll never really get over the loss of someone who's so

01:17 important to you this movie is a movie that my dad would've

01:21 been the most proud that I was a part of I felt like my dad

01:25 sent it to me I feel like he was like here. This is what

01:30 you're to do next and yeah, and so it's like

01:33 being on set every day felt like I was just it was right

01:37 there with me and I know this would have been the one that he

01:41 went to my premieres with me and he would have just been

01:43 beaming.

01:44 >> Something about that little girl without a mom sick I think

01:48 I'm supposed to help.

01:49 >> These active kindness and doing things for others helps

01:53 us find our to his purpose.

01:55 >> You don't have to have all the answers and have it all

01:57 figured out before you go start helping others in your world to

02:01 me that is why this movie so important necessary at this

02:04 point in time, I still you know I also love.

02:10 >> I love you.

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