I really chase the things that I want.

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.