Hilary Swank Reveals the Special Meaning Behind Her Twins' Names (Exclusive)
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00:00 >> The last time you and I talked you're about to give
00:03 birth now you've got twins and I'm a lot higher and look a lot
00:07 more tired right now right. But I also have a lot more joy
00:10 and a lot more love and a lot more fun in my life it is the
00:14 most wonderful blessing and I'm so grateful for these 2 little
00:18 miracles and
00:20 it's just every day is something new it's wonderful
00:24 and you announce their name on love day which is which is so
00:27 great what's the sick is there a significance behind that.
00:29 Yeah, well I was a young I met a Syrian refugee when I went to
00:34 Lebanon, a young girl who just talk about perseverance she
00:37 just had been through so much to so brave and so courageous
00:40 and so full of light.
00:42 Especially under her circumstances and what they
00:46 were you know how they were living and what they were where
00:51 they were moving and my husband and I were like if we ever have
00:55 a daughter I think we should name her after I and then my
00:59 son home who is that's that's considered the first universal
01:04 sound and the sound that is unites people so seems.
01:09 >> As beautiful I named my favorite food, I got peanut
01:13 butter. Yeah, and they call that as soon as you call it
01:21 out you come quick. You know.
01:23 >> Something about that little girl without a mom sick and
01:28 family but dry from the hospital bills and comes
01:31 posting.
01:32 Sharon yes, I just wanted to come by and give you this I
01:37 just made dinner if you want to stay locked to you.
01:40 >> Alan you said that there are 2 kinds of films, there are
01:43 popcorn films and then there are films that awaken something
01:47 in each of us. So what did this film awaken in each of you to.
01:52 >> A love of popcorn for me I did speaking of popcorn I so
01:55 much on set it's unbelievable. And I'm I'm not prejudiced
01:59 towards any popcorn butter.
02:00 >> All at once.
02:03 >> No that this is definitely one of those films that plant
02:06 seeds that remind us of the core of who we are and call us
02:09 to some higher purpose. And you know it. The message to me is
02:15 that you don't have to be perfect you don't have to be
02:17 well resourced you don't have to have all the answers and
02:20 have it all figured out before you go start helping others in
02:23 your world just find ways to use who you are and that that's
02:28 that's that's it that's the message, you know, and it's
02:31 what Hillary the story that Hillary tell so well in the
02:35 person Sharon so I mean to me that's that's that that is that
02:39 that is why this movie so important and necessary at this
02:41 point in time.
02:42 >> I think it's also a reminder that these active kindness and
02:46 doing things for others helps us find our truest purpose,
02:50 you know, we're not always set out to understand that when we
02:52 do something like that that we get so much from it. But we do
02:57 and I think every time we do that for someone else we just
03:00 are doing really something for ourselves as well right because
03:03 we're all united and I I think it's also a reminder of the
03:06 power of being an organ donor
03:08 because that saves lives and I've seen that firsthand with
03:12 my father who received a lung transplant and so it's just
03:17 it's there's a lot of layers in this movie about giving in
03:21 different ways and and how
03:24 how we can all just work together and be better human
03:28 beings.
03:28 >> And you did you did this movie Hillary just 5 months
03:31 after your dad passed. How was that well, I mean to this day,
03:37 I I you know people say that time heals and certainly
03:42 I think insight heels and most circumstances, but
03:46 it's still it's so you'll never really get over the loss of
03:50 someone who's so important to you. So it still makes me
03:55 really emotional, but I think I was definitely more Robin.
03:59 But I this movie is a movie that my dad would've been the
04:03 most proud that I was a part of and so that also was a big I
04:07 felt like my dad sent it to me.
04:10 I like he was like I this is what you're to do next and
04:14 yeah, and so it's like
04:16 being on set every day felt like I was just it he was right
04:20 there with me and I know this would have been the one that he
04:24 he went to my premieres with me and he would have just been
04:26 beaming.
04:27 >> You're not supposed to give me goose bumps. But I receive
04:33 that and this I think the overall theme in this movie
04:37 sets so deep with me because I've been through that with
04:41 being very faithful losing my faith through a situation and
04:46 then having to find it again what is the message both hope
04:50 that audiences take away from this film.
04:53 >> That's exactly it, you know, yeah, look the story of faith
05:00 in all of our lives cannot be this linear unbroken straight
05:03 line from perfect faith to even more perfect faith. I mean I
05:08 think I think we can be tested at times. I think you know God
05:14 knows that we live in a very a very difficult place. You know
05:18 where you know months monsters are real in our world and that
05:22 takes us to the core sometimes and what we do with that
05:26 sometimes it we're invited to wrestle with him over the
05:30 challenges and in why things are allowed to be the way that
05:33 they are you know, and I don't think I was afraid of that
05:37 that wrestling match, you know, I think I think truly we're
05:39 invited to do so and that's really where faith begins is in
05:43 those moments of of darkness and confusion. So that's that
05:49 you know that's kind of where we meet Ed Schmidt, you know
05:51 this real life here that I played and
05:54 we see him wrestling with the same thing and I I just I think
05:58 that that's that's a great place for many people to start.
06:01 >> Michelle will need to fly 700 miles to the children's
06:04 hospital, you tell me we need a plane now how exactly do you
06:07 recommend we get a plane dock.
06:09 >> Okay to play and I promise.
06:11 >> Hillary in I feel like we look at your at your career.
06:16 You kind of really dive into to tackle these stories, these
06:21 personas that are not just like fictional Hollywood characters,
06:24 but if you think about you know, Amelia from from
06:28 conviction or boys don't cry.
06:30 >> So you're a boy now what what what is about these real
06:35 life roles that you like tackling young and grew well
06:37 from freedom writers and yes, I find people who persevere
06:42 through adversity people who are
06:45 searching and wanting to give love and receive love people
06:49 who believe in others in circumstances where they
06:53 haven't been before where they really see somebody and who's
06:56 people who need to be seen. These are people there the
07:00 they're the underdogs of the people who sometimes get
07:03 forgotten there the people that
07:05 move me and inspire me to be a better human being.
07:10 And so when I read about them and I moved to my marrow by
07:16 their service or their act of kindness or they're just desire
07:21 to be seen and be believed in I
07:25 jump at the chance, it's enriching me as a human in ways
07:30 I could never get otherwise
07:32 walking in their shoes and seeing through their eyes and
07:35 it is a blessing upon blessing upon blessing.
07:38 >> This is our last chance if we don't take it show guys.
07:42 >> How did it become your responsibility to save her
07:48 because I'm here.
07:51 Because I can
07:51 the U.S. and around the world.
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