The Reaping
Hilary Swank on The Reaping
“I like smart ones and I feel like this is a really smart one,” she said. “It really makes you think. The twists and turns in it, I was surprised and I read a lot of scripts and I see a lot of movies and I couldn’t believe it got me.”
With most of the scares handled with special effects, Swank didn’t have to rely on her own training to carry off the project. “I boxed. Oh, no that was a different movie. I acted like a boy. No, wait. Sorry. No, there was nothing physical that I had to do for this movie. What I actually did, I had to read these magazines. There is something called like ‘The Skeptic Mind’ and all these books on people who debunk miracles and myths and stuff just like my character did and it was really fascinating. I did read a lot of those books. I read parts of the bible. I looked at everything.”
Swank is not normally a superstitious person, but there were some undeniable coincidences on The Reaping set. “You know the scene where they keep Brody McConnell’s body on the gurney and they pan down to the symbol on his back? Every time it would pan down, the sound would go out. Not just out it was like warped. And you were like, ‘What’s going on?’ The first time you don’t think anything. They just say ‘cut’ and you just talk and blah, blah, blah. And then they say, ‘Action,’ and we get back to it and then it would go out right when it got there again. Five takes later it’s still going out. And then we were like, ‘What is going on?’ Right when it gets to that point. Isn’t that interesting?”
Real life intruded onto the production when Hurrican Katrina raged through the south. But the film remained in town, coming back after things were more stable to support the community. “A movie is a movie and it’s a business and it took us way off schedule, but instead they just waited. Instead of pulling out and filming somewhere else, which would have left these people homeless and jobless, they kept the movie there, which I appreciated. Warner Bros. and Joel and they all made that real effort to do that. We all did. I was like, ‘Please make sure we go back.’ And I just thought that was really, really great we could give these people a place to go and something else to think about. And try and help rebuild. I know we went down on my birthday, which is July 30th, and we left November 2nd.”
The Reaping opens to theatres this weekend.
For the posters, trailer, stills and more movie info, go to The
Reaping Movie Page.
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