The Next Karate Kid is a 1994 film starring Hilary Swank and Pat Morita. It is the fourth and final movie in The Karate Kid series. In September 1997, Swank was cast as single mother Carly Reynolds on Beverly Hills, 90210. She was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998. Swank later said that she was devastated at being cut from the show, thinking, “If I’m not good enough for 90210, I’m not good enough for anything.”
As it turned out, the firing was a lucky break for Swank, freeing her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry. Swank reduced her body fat to seven percent in preparation for the role. Many critics hailed hers as the best female performance of 1999; her co-star, Chloë Sevigny, had her performance singled out as well. Swank’s work ultimately won her the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actress. She subsequently won the Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe again for playing a boxer in Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby, a role for which she underwent training in the ring and gained 19 pounds of muscle.
Swank in a promo poster for Million Dollar BabySwank’s success meant that she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Helen Hayes, Sally Field, and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards twice and win both times. She is the third-youngest double Best Actress winner (after Rainer and Jodie Foster). After winning her second Oscar, she said, “I don’t know what I did in this life to deserve this. I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.” Swank had earned only $75 per day for her work on Boys Don’t Cry, culminating in a total of $3,000. Her earnings were so low, that (according to an anecdote on 60 Minutes) she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance.
Hilary Swank’s Hard-Core Workout    Wed., Apr. 23
Hilary Swank just started work on her new film about Amelia Earhart. But she’s already attracting attention for the smoldering hot body she’s earned preparing for the role.
And E! News has the exclusive details how she did it:
Several times a week, Swank hits up Exhale, a Santa Monica workout studio where she’s taking private instruction in “core fusion,” a workout that combines the toughest elements of Pilates, yoga and ballet. It’s a 60-minute
“P.S. I Love You.” Rated PG-13.
Hilary Swank stars as a young widow whose letters from her dead husband, written during his final illness, inspire her to begin living again. Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon co-star as her best friends. USA Today film critic Claudia Puig says the film can’t decide whether it wants to be light and frothy or dark and mournful. Despite its occasional charm, Puig writes, its “dialogue is uninspired and the revelations clichd.” The PG-13 rating is for sexual situations and brief nudity.
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