Best Actress 2013: Hilary Swank, You're Not You

Well, she's back!  After weathering the professional shit-storm that resulted from appearing at the birthday celebration of Chechnyan president Kadyrov, which resulted in getting dropped from her PR firm and then firing some of her team, Hilary Swank is after another Oscar. I guess.  I'm not sure how much luck she will have with the director of Nights in Rodanthe.  I'm really hoping that the fact she has two Oscars and [insert many names here] doesn't have one is just dumb luck, and the AMPAS will never nominate her for anything ever again.  Shana Feste and Jordan Roberts adapted the screenplay from the novel by Wildgen about a college student (Emmy Rossum) who develops a relationship with a woman dealing with ALS (Swank).  While it appears to be the story of Rossum's character, Swank has the baitier role, in what might be a co-lead situation.  She dropped The Dallas Buyer's Club and gave Jennifer Garner her sloppy seconds to star in this.  Filmed in L.A. last year, the cast includes Ali Larter, Marcia Gay Harden, Julian McMahon, Frances Fisher, Jason Ritter, and Loretta Devine.  Swank is a coproducer with Denise Di Novi.   It alway kills me to see pictures of Swank, because she looks so much like one of my friends.  I kind of freaks me out, especially since I really like my friend.

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