Swank considers putting her family before her acting career while her father is ill. Hilary Swank isn’t sorry she gave up acting to take care of her ailing father.
On Today, she discussed her latest film, Ordinary Angels. Her dad would have enjoyed the film, she claimed.
Between 2014 to 2017, she took a sabbatical from acting to assist her dad in receiving a lung transplant and recovering.
It was, she claimed, a very significant period in her life. She considered herself fortunate to have time off. She and her dad became closer as a result. In 2021, her father passed away.
In the movie Ordinary Angels, she plays a hairstylist who assists a man in finding his daughter a liver donation.
She is very interested in this topic because her dad received a lung transplant. She believes her father would have enjoyed this film.
She discussed taking a hiatus from performing in 2020. She claimed that being her dad’s primary caregiver was difficult.
The original plan called for a year, but due to the complications surrounding her dad’s lung transplant,
it turned into three. She shared posts mourning her dad’s passing on Instagram. She claimed to miss him daily.
She posted a photo of the two of them on Instagram in October to commemorate two years since her father passed away. She claimed that he made a lot of people happy. She still longs for him.