Hilary Swank doesn’t regret taking a break from acting to care for her sick dad. She talked about her new movie, Ordinary Angels, on the Today show. She said her dad would’ve loved the movie. She took a break from acting from 2014 to 2017 to help her dad get a lung transplant and get better.

She said it was a really important time in her life. She felt lucky to be able to take time off. It made her bond with her dad stronger. Her dad passed away in 2021.

She stars in Ordinary Angels as a hairdresser who helps a man find a liver transplant for his daughter. This topic means a lot to her because her dad got a lung transplant. She thinks her dad would’ve loved this movie.

She talked about her break from acting in 2020. She said it was tough being her dad’s main caretaker. It was only supposed to be a year, but it ended up being three years because her dad’s lung transplant was complicated. After her dad died, she posted about it on Instagram. She said she missed him every day.

In October, she marked two years since her dad died with a picture of them together on Instagram. She said he brought a lot of joy to people’s lives. She still misses him a lot.