Hilary Swank is taking ET behind the scenes on the set of her new show AlaskaDaily.
The drama series, which debuts Thursday, follows Swank's Eileen Fitzgerald, a talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption. She soon finds herself at the center of a years-old cold case involving the death of a missing woman who was abducted when she was a teenager.
"What the beauty is of journalism and the beauty of storytelling is that we have that ability to shine a light on things and give them a broader audience. More eyes. I think about some of the things I've done in the past fromand starting a conversation that then gets people talking about something that needs change," she says."That's one of the great things about being a storyteller is you have that ability to hopefully affect change for the positive in the long run.
She shared that in preparation to familiarize herself with the complexities of being a working journalist, she and McCarthy worked with many of the same journalists he went to for guidance while making ."They've been so generous with their time and their experience and hearing firsthand how they tackle something," Swank says."It's one of the great joys of being an actor. You get to walk in these people's shoes in a real meaningful way and see through their eyes.
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