- Let's get to my first guest y'all.
Let's bring in the Zoom room.
She's a two time Oscar winner.
You know her from "Million
Dollar Baby", "Boys Don't Cry",
and "The Next Karate Kid".
On September 4th, you can
see her in "Away" on Netflix.
I'm very happy to say hi to
Hillary Swank, are you there?
- Hey, it worked okay, hi how are you?
- (laughs) Oh my gosh, that's like the,
that should be the slogan
for 2020, technical issues.
It worked! (laughs)
- (laughs) Right.
- That's so awesome.
I'm such a big fan, I'm so
honored that you're on my show.
Thank you for doing it.
- Thank you.
I'm a big fan of yours as well.
Congratulations with everything.
- Ah, thank you so much,
I, I, life is weird,
how it hands you different
things that you know,
unexpected, but we say
yes, and it's awesome.
So where are you Zooming from?
- Colorado, and I have my window open
and it just got breezy, it looks like
I have someone like with a fan.
- It does look like Beyonce's
fan is in your room,
but it's awesome and I love
it and I kinda wish I had one.
What have you been up to?
Have you learned anything new?
I feel like everybody's got a new skill
or something they're
into during quarantine.
- Let's see, I had a like
tried my hand at crocheting,
which I need to practice.
I've, actually seeing your
guitar hanging back there,
I wanted to take guitar lessons
and learn how to play guitar,
but I'm a lefty and there's
not really anyone out there,
like, will teach you lefty,
but then everyone's like,
no, no, it's perfect
because you just mirror
someone playing righty.
So I guess I could.
- Yeah, and that's Jimi Hendrix, right?
Wasn't he?
- Yeah, but he played upside down.
- Oh, that's true too,
that's right, that's right.
- Yeah, it is.
- Yeah.
- It is really cool.
So I've heard you're very
passionate about animals.
You were speaking about you,
you have four rescues, right?
- Yes.
- Yes. Are they all with you right now?
- Yes, they are, I have two here, one was,
another was behind me, but they're all,
yeah, they're all here.
I go on a lot of road trips.
I do a lot of, um, driving
from location to location
so that they can come with
me and inevitably on the road
I'll find another dog
and they just kind of hop
in the car and become a part of the pack.
- Oh my gosh, that's so cool.
My, literally I grew up in a
house that I literally felt
like we had a farm in a duplex,
because we, 'cause my
mom couldn't turn down
any animal that was on
the side of the road.
So we had so many, but I love animals.
I think often they're just
so much better than humans.
Like...
- Yeah.
- they're just a really
peaceful kind of thing
just to have around, especially now.
- And they kinda, and
they see you who, for you,
you know who you really are.
And so they kind of like, get
to the heart of the matter.
- Yeah, and accept all of
it, it's so, it's so awesome.
So have you and your
family come, competed?
I hear you're into games, right?
- I am a, we are a huge
game playing family.
From cards to board games,
to like, like charades,
like running charades, like you name it.
We're all...
- Like Catchphrase?
- No, is that the one where
you have it on your head?
- No, but that's a fun one.
No, no Catchphrase is
where you pass the thing
and if it buzzes on you, then you're out.
And then the circle gets
smaller and smaller,
but it's kind of like, you
get like one word to describe.
It's really fun.
That one or Code Names as a
really good, we're big gamers.
- Oh, you are!
Gosh, we have so much in
common, between like animals
and like, you live on a ranch.
- Yeah I know, I know!
And I totally have Oscars! Nope.
We have so much in common!
(laughing)
- But wait, wait back to the games.
We play this game called
Celebrity where each person
takes a small piece of paper and you write
someone famous and then
you put their name in a hat
and then you, each person has one minute
to like, pull out some
names in and out of the hat
and be like, you know, big,
black ears making Walt Disney.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And then on the second
run, you put the same names
back in the hat, but you
can only use two words
to say so "big ears."
And then the third time you
have to charades it out.
- I play this game and
I was taught this game.
And the name of it was called Fishbowl.
- Well, I like that better, kind of.
- It's called Fish, no
well that's what's so funny
it's called Fishbowl yeah
and and you keep going.
It's the same ones, and you
only use one word than two.
I'm telling you I'm a very big gamer.
- [Alexis] Everything's
gonna be okay, right?
The spacewalk, nothing
bad's gonna happen to you?
- [Emma] I got this,
everything's gonna be okay.
(knocking on door)
- [Man] It's time for
decompression, commander.
- Copy.
(dramatic music)
I gotta go, sweetie.
- Okay.
- You're my reason.
My reason to hold on tight.
(screen swooshes)
- Welcome back, everybody I'm hanging out
with two time Oscar winner, Hillary Swank.
That was a look at her
new Netflix show "Away."
It starts streaming on September 4th.
So Hillary, your new show looks great.
Tell me about "Away" and who you play.
- I play a commander Emma Green,
who is leading a mission to Mars.
It's this super fun space
show, but what makes it
different from a space show is we have
this gravitational pull to Earth.
And meaning like, the
connection to our Earth family
and all this happening down on Earth.
So it's also, like, a
really beautiful love story
between all the astronauts
and their families
and like, what they're
leaving behind in order
to go on this journey.
- And did you get to go to
NASA and train with astronauts
or do anything cool like that to prep?
- I did, I actually went down to the,
the mission control in Houston
and I got to communicate
with the astronauts
up at the International Space Station.
I got to talk to astronauts,
both retired and still working.
I got to pick their brain.
They were super generous
and offering advice,
and thoughts about what
it felt like emotionally
and physically to go into space.
Some of the things that
they butted up against
during their journey and how
much they want to go to Mars.
- Yeah, oh my gosh, that's so cool.
I'm obsessed with space
and I'm going to go to NASA
maybe next year.
We're just waiting for all
of this stuff to kind of,
get better and we can be next to humans.
So do you,
- I am obsessed with
space too, by the way,
I wanted to be an astronaut
before I wanted to be an actor.
Yeah,
- Really?
- Yeah. I just think
something about the great...
- I want to be marine biologist
which is the opposite way,
I went into that as a kid
and and then it changed.
But do you have any advice for me?
I'm going to go to NASA
and I'm so excited.
Is there anything cool you
learned when you went there
or anything that nobody
would know, I don't know.
- No, I mean, it's not,
it's like there's so,
I wish I had some awesome
thing to pass on to you,
- Cool things.
- but you're gonna love it.
It's like, you getta go in
and you getta, there's a tour
you're gonna go through where
you get to see what it's like
for them when they go to
their different compartments
in space, on the space station.
- You feel claustrophobic in that?
- Oh my gosh, it's so
funny, you ask that Kelly.
So listen to this, this
is a big deal for me.
And it's something new to me.
I didn't realize I was a claustro,
that I had claustrophobia.
- Me neither.
I found out in the pyramid Giza in Egypt.
- Me too!
- What?!
- (laughing) Oh my god, we
might be separated at birth.
- I went through the Bent Pyramid.
I went through all these other pyramids.
I got to Giza, I was fine.
We were going down the little thing.
I got down there and I
was like, (deep inhale)
I was like, the air is so thick.
I was like, there's not
enough air for all of us.
And I was legit throwing
women and children
out of my way to get out of that pyramid.
- You know the, remember the
tunnel you have to go through
and you have to duck to
get to the other one.
- Yes!
- Okay, So I'm in there and,
and I was there doing
some press and I had some,
you know, security people
and all of a sudden I went like this,
"I'm not okay, I'm not okay."
And I would have been
throwing, like you said,
kids and people all aside.
And they were like, "Clear a path!"
I was all of a sudden drenched in sweat.
And that's when I realized
I was, I'm claustrophobic.
Like, really bad.
- I had no idea.
- Yeah, and then all of a
sudden, I put on my space suit.
- That's like a wet suit for me, probably.
Like, I can't do wetsuits
for the same reason.
- It was over my head and it clicked.
And I was like, and then
like, you can't click it off.
You have to push a button and get it off.
And then you have gloves
on and you can't get off.
I almost passed out, but I
hadn't started filming yet.
And so I didn't want to
tell anybody that I was
claustrophobic 'cause what if
they recast me or something.
So I just was like, "Hey".
And then they saw my face
was red and I was like,
going like, woozy.
And they said, "Why don't
you sit down, are you okay?"
I'm like, "Yeah, just really hot."
But I worked through it.
- It's the worst!
I know and you and I felt
like it was so silly before
when people would be like,
"I'm claustrophobic",
I'm like, "get over it."
- Me too! I'm so glad you say that!
- I know and then I'm like,
what kind of karma was that?
I was like, okay, cool.
All right. Okay.
That's so weird, we do
have a lot in common,
but speaking of things
we don't have in common,
- I can't sing, to save my life.
- No, you have trained,
I've seen all these films
that you're in, even from
when you were younger.
You've, you've played
some really bad ass women.
And you've trained against
guys and you're always
kind of this just like, just
amazing presence of a woman.
And that must be so cool.
- Thank you.
One, to get to play you are
women in film, but also,
have you accidentally ever hurt a dude?
- (laughs) I did.
So when I was learning how to
box on a "Million Dollar Baby"
I would have these, my sparring partners,
and so as I was, progressing and stuff,
and we were able to like really spar,
I punched him and he didn't move his face,
which was just a surprise.
'Cause I'm not, you know, I was learning
and he's like really
agile and really good.
And I punched him square in the nose
and his nose erupted in blood.
But being a, you know, uh,
like being raised a girl
and apologizing all the time I went,
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."
And then my coach, my
boxing coach was like,
"Do not ever say, you're
sorry again. And don't ever
stop boxing when you were
in the middle of it."
I was like, "I'm s..."
- And then you say "I'm sorry", me too.
I know my friend is,
- But I'm working on it,
I'm getting better at it.
- I literally was sent a book
of, like, stop saying sorry.
And I was like, okay.
All right, it's so great
to talk with you, Hillary.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
- Thanks for having me on the show.
