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Hilary Swank Recalls Sleeping in Car With Her Mom Before Hollywood Stardom: 'I Feel Nostalgia for Those Days'

Hilary Swank recalls the days when she was an aspiring actress who had 'nothing.'

In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, the Boys Don't Cry star recalls her earliest days in Los Angeles trying to become a teenage actress while living with her newly separated mom, Judy, in their car. ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty ImagesSwank did find community in local theater, through which she fostered her talent, eventually signed with an agent, met with casting directors and ultimately got her break with early roles on Harry and the Hendersons, Evening Shade, Growing Pains, and in the 1992 movie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A two-time Oscar winner and new mom of twins who lives on 168 acres in Colorado, things look a bit different these days for the longtime star, but that does not mean she's forgotten her humble beginnings.

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