Hilary Swank Esquire Photos

Hilary Swank is in the April Esquire. For a woman who has won Oscars for playing a transsexual and a boxer, she looks pretty hot.

Here are some excerpts from “Thank You Lord, Hilary Swank Is Single Again,” written by Mike Sager:

Like a streetwalker with a broken toe, Hilary Swank hobbles across the concrete floor in a pair of five-inch gold-leather pumps. The studio is darkish and the music is blaring; there is a smell of fresh paint and hair spray and food service in the air, along with the rich aroma of roasted coffee, the handiwork of the authentic Italian barista who is stationed in the vaulted lobby.

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Now Hilary Swank is thirty-two. The lonely little tomboy who used to like to pass her time floating in a lake has won two Oscars for Best Actress. In Boys Don’t Cry, she played Brandon Teena, a transgendered woman who attempts to live and love as a man and is killed for it. In Million Dollar Baby, she played Maggie Fitzgerald, a heavy-shouldered woman with a thumping right cross who dreams of becoming a professional boxer. Seeing her now at this photo shoot, wearing a little black sweater dress that clings to her every curve — a dress that even she thinks looks killer on her; she will purchase it directly from the wardrobe woman before she leaves — you think instead of Madeleine Linscott, the high-society vixen she played in The Black Dahlia, whose introductory scene, in a lesbian supper club in the late forties, in a black dress with a similar sort of breathless plunging neckline, is that movie’s unrivaled highlight (though you might say the scene is stolen by the risque, Vegas-esque production number featuring a tuxedoed K.D. Lang singing “Love for Sale”).

Freshly divorced from the actor Chad Lowe, the boyish and lesser-known brother of Rob — whom she met at eighteen at an MTV-sponsored basketball game, whom she sort of resembled in her role as Brandon Teena, whom she famously forgot to thank when she won her first Oscar, and who recently admitted to his struggles with substance abuse, which contributed to, as one celebrity mag would put it, the “long, slow death of the thirteen-year relationship that defined her adulthood” — Swank seems to have entered the full flower of her womanhood. She is firm where a female is supposed to be firm, ripe where a female is supposed to be ripe. Though she is not tall — later, in slippers, she will stand about five foot four — there is a monumental quality to her, a sculptedness, a tensile strength. She looks as if she’d just as soon fight you as fuck you, and as if she’d be the one to decide which it was going to be.

Here are the photos from the shoot:

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