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Hilary Swank has recalled pausing her acting career to take care of her father.
The Million Dollar Baby star has reflected on taking a break from her career between 2014 and 2017 to care for her ailing father, Stephen Swank.
"It was one of the most important times of my life, I think," Hilary, 49, said during an appearance on the Today show on Monday.
During her time off from acting, Hilary became her father's sole caregiver, after he underwent a lung transplant.
The star shared that she was "blessed" to be able to spend time with her dad before he passed away on 1 October 2021, adding that their time together "deepened" their bond.
"We had a lot of fun as well," the P.S. I Love You star continued. "There was a lot of trials and tribulations within there, but it was extraordinary and nothing I would ever regret doing."
Hilary also revealed that her new film Ordinary Angels, in which she plays a hairdresser who helps a widower find a liver transplant for his daughter, would have been her father's "favourite movie" of hers.
"My father was a recipient of a lung transplant so organ donation is a big, big thing to me and talking about it," she said. "This movie came about three months after my dad passed, so I got this opportunity, I feel like it was sent by my dad, and to tell a movie about an extraordinary human being and family.... I think it would have been my dad's favourite movie of mine."
Ordinary Angels will be released on Friday.
The Million Dollar Baby star has reflected on taking a break from her career between 2014 and 2017 to care for her ailing father, Stephen Swank.
"It was one of the most important times of my life, I think," Hilary, 49, said during an appearance on the Today show on Monday.
During her time off from acting, Hilary became her father's sole caregiver, after he underwent a lung transplant.
The star shared that she was "blessed" to be able to spend time with her dad before he passed away on 1 October 2021, adding that their time together "deepened" their bond.
"We had a lot of fun as well," the P.S. I Love You star continued. "There was a lot of trials and tribulations within there, but it was extraordinary and nothing I would ever regret doing."
Hilary also revealed that her new film Ordinary Angels, in which she plays a hairdresser who helps a widower find a liver transplant for his daughter, would have been her father's "favourite movie" of hers.
"My father was a recipient of a lung transplant so organ donation is a big, big thing to me and talking about it," she said. "This movie came about three months after my dad passed, so I got this opportunity, I feel like it was sent by my dad, and to tell a movie about an extraordinary human being and family.... I think it would have been my dad's favourite movie of mine."
Ordinary Angels will be released on Friday.