It’s been 30 years since Hilary Swank found steady work as a performer on ABC’s short-lived sitcom Camp Wilder.
Since then, she has found fame on the big screen and won Oscars for “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Million Dollar Baby”.
Thursday night, she returns to ABC, on “The Alaska Daily.”
“I view it as a human drama that follows the disgraced journalist, Elaine Fitzgerald, on her way to redemption,” says show creator Tom McCarthy.
He won an Academy Award for writing “Spotlight” – which also won first prize as “Best Picture” of 2015.
“I was greeted by Tom McCarthy,” Hilary Swank told WABC Entertainment reporter Sandy Kenyon. “He’s obviously interested in the movies, but also the long game. Like his creativity, it’s like this river that just flows, it flows into everything he does and it’s going to flow right into a chain.”
The series is about more than just one journalist’s salvation.
“It’s a story about how the crisis of missing and murdered Aboriginal women has been largely ignored,” explains the character Jeff Perry plays in the first episode.
The case came as a suggestion to Tom McCarthy.
“It is being said that I really underestimated the profound tragedy and pain associated with that crisis,” he said.
The audience learns of the crisis along with the character of Swank teaming up with another reporter played by Grace Dove who hails from one of the First Nations in Canada.
“Representing Indigenous people the way we deserve it is incredible,” Dove said.
“The Alaska Daily” airs Thursday nights on ABC. Check your local listings.
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