'Alaska Daily': Hilary Swank teases her character Eileen Fitzgerald, 'I love that she does her homework'
Come fall and ABC will roll out a new crime drama starring Academy Award winner, Hilary Swank. The actress will now grab a dictaphone as a journalist in 'Alaska Daily' after donning boxing gloves and then suiting up for a space drama. Created by Tom McCarthy, the series follows a journo heading to Alaska from New York for a fresh start and finds herself working on a cold case dealing with the death of a native American woman. Things get darker and murky when she uncovers a larger conspiracy. Ahead of the show's release, Swank teased her character and the show.
Talking about her character, the 'Away star teased that Eileen was a go-getter and a quick learner. "She is going to get to the bottom of the truth one way or another," Swank told EW. "No one's going to stop her from getting there. And I love that she does her homework; she knows her rights and if she doesn't, she quickly learns them. It's kind of fun to see this award-winning journalist go up to Alaska and… she just kind of shakes it all up. It's something I admire in people — people who don't give up, who persevere."
