One of Hilary Swank's lifelong ambitions was to work with Robert De Niro. In "New Year's Eve,' she got to do just that playing a television producer whose father (De Niro) is dying man. Just before their first scene together, Swank sees the famed method actor lying motionless in a hospital bed. "I'm thinking, 'Wow, he's giving it to me. Like we're connected here. We are connected. Me and De Niro - method,'" she said during a recent press ... more 

One of Hilary Swank's lifelong ambitions was to work with Robert De Niro. In "New Year's Eve,' she got to do just that playing a television producer whose father (De Niro) is dying man. Just before their first scene together, Swank sees the famed method actor lying motionless in a hospital bed. "I'm thinking, 'Wow, he's giving it to me. Like we're connected here. We are connected. Me and De Niro - method,'" she said during a recent press conference. "I start getting a little emotional. But the camera's not on me, but we were just getting into the mood, of the father-daughter, father dying kind of thing. I'm feeling it. I'm going deep with De Niro. The next thing I know, he's opens his eyes, 'Aaah, anyone got that coffee?' And I'm like, 'Oh, my god, he was sleeping!' I thought he was going deep for me. The truth is, he'd been in that bed all day, from like six in the morning. He took a nap!" less