I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Swank met Robert Bresnik a San Diego artist who supported her role as Earhart by producing several photographic reproductions of the flyer at Legoland in 2008. After winning her second Oscar Hilary Swank said "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. Many reviews of Swank's performance were positive with one critic noting that Hilary Swank "brings credibility" to the role and another stating that her performance reaches a "singular lack of artifice stripping herself back to the bare essentials".

Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30 1974) is an American film actress.