I just thought, who would want to get hit and who wants to hit The whole concept eluded me, but when I started training as a boxer, I realized it was so much more than something physical. What’s it like for women boxers because there’s a stereotype attached Was it an interesting psychological journey for youĪctually, boxing was not really anything I really understood. There are a lot of interesting parallels for me, and I am thankful for this experience. The interesting thing is that Maggie wanted Frankie Dunn to be a part of that, and for me as an actress, to work with Clint Eastwood, a living legend and major piece of cinema history, was dream come true. If I don’t have this, I don’t have anything,’ I have often felt that with acting. Maggie even has a line in the movie, in which she says: I never felt good doing anything else. Maggie is probably one of the characters I felt closest to, because Maggie grew up in a trailer park and Maggie grew up with not a lot, and she had this dream and she felt so good boxing. I am a girl from a trailer park, and here I am, sitting in a room with you and living my dream. What kind of identification did you have with Maggie, as a woman who comes from nowhere and wants to become somebody I just have a newfound respect for my body. That’s what you were looking on the set.’ I guess it’s surprising, but it’s not, because you realize your body is a machine and your body can adapt and change. When I saw that picture, I said to Clint, that’s me.’ And he looked at it and said, Yeah, that’s you. If you looked at my back now, it didn’t look like that before. It’s really an integral part of my life because I grew up an athlete. I stopped drinking those egg whites and protein shakes, though Im really athletic. In order to maintain that regime, you have to do it every day. I am getting a t-shirt made that says, I got hit by Linda Reiker and survived it. I punched people when I was training, because I was sparring and I was getting hit.
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I didn’t really punch anybody, although that’s the nature of the job. The one thing that was strange is I lost a breast size, because I lost so much body fat, but it came back (examines her breasts humorously). How do you feel about the 19 extra pounds of muscle But I only had to do it for three months, and this experience afforded me another opportunity to dive into another life, a boxer’s life, and that’s what I love about my job. I was drinking egg whites, flax oil, protein shakes. I was eating 210 grams of protein a day, and that entailed eating every hour. If Im supposed to play a boxer, Im going to do the best I can to look like a boxer. I was asked to gain 10 pounds of muscles, and I ended up gaining 19 pounds of muscle. I trained like 4-5 hours every day, six days a week, for three months.
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Then I was told that Cling Eastwood was directing it, and I just about fell off my chair, because to have both of those things come together is like a dream come true for an actor. I laughed and I cried and I was inspired. Paul Haggis, who adapted the stories, did an amazing job. It was one of the best scripts Ive ever read. Hilary: When I read the script, it was such an incredible story. In the interview, Hilary talks candidly about her life, career, and marriage. And she didn’t neglect her trainers at Gleason’s Gym: “You pushed me farther than I even thought I could push myself.” Hilary also thanked her director, Clint Eastwood, her co0star, the amazing Morgan Freeman, her lawyers, and agents. Last Night, Hilary won her second Best Actress Oscar for her highly acclaimed performance in Clint Eastwood’s brilliant drama, Million Dollar Baby, which also won Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor to Morgan Freeman.įailing to mention her husband, Chad Lowe, when she won her first Oscar, for “Boys Don’t Cry,” Hilary said in her acceptance speech: Im going to start by thanking my husband because Id like to think I learned from past mistakes.