Sophia Michaels
“She was in her first trimester of pregnancy while filming, and was just starting to show when she announced it in October 2022. So she had to get creative with how she hid it on-set.”
In the series “Alaska Daily,” Hilary Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, a journalist relocating from New York City to Alaska to get a fresh start away from bridges she burned, but she gets more than she bargained for. Swank was in her first trimester of pregnancy while filming, and was just starting to show when she announced it in October 2022. So she had to get creative with how she hid it on-set. She did this by making sure she didn’t have to do any of her own running on camera.
“To do one to two minutes on screen takes two hours,” Swank told “The Late Late Show with James Corden” in January. “They want it from this angle, this angle … You’ll be running for two hours. I was like, ‘Oh my god. I’m pregnant. I can’t tell anybody.'” Since she wasn’t telling anyone at the time and didn’t want it to get out, she fibbed a little and told production that she was a “really bad runner,” so bad that she required a stunt double to do her running shots for her. “They were like, all of them, like, ‘Huh? You? What? You need a stunt double to run?'” she said. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, real bad.'” She had to demonstrate for them, and — even though she’s “not a great runner to start with” — her acting chops came in handy because they secured her a stunt double in the end.
