CREEPY `REAPING'.Byline: - Glenn Whipp Acting spooked-out came pretty easy for Hilary Swank while making the supernatural thriller ``The Reaping'' last year in the 200-year-old town of St. Francisville St. Francisville may refer to:
attractive feature, magnet, attractor, attracter, attraction - a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees" said to be the site of murders and slavery, not to mention an American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. burial ground. In her first movie since winning the Oscar for ``Million Dollar Baby,'' Swank plays a one-time Christian missionary who lost her faith after a tragedy and now spends her days debunking de·bunk tr.v. de·bunked, de·bunk·ing, de·bunks To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of: debunk a supposed miracle drug. supposed religious miracles. She gets more than she bargained for when she visits a small Louisiana town that's bearing the brunt of the 10 plagues found in the Old Testament book of Exodus. (The insect plague came pretty naturally, this being summer in the South.) ``It's a freaky freak·y adj. freak·i·er, freak·i·est 1. Strange or unusual; freakish. 2. Slang Frightening. freak movie to begin with,'' Swank says, ``and then there were all these things that happened while we were filming. There's this strange symbol in the movie, and when we tried to film a scene with it in it, the sound wouldn't record. Then there were the hurricanes ...'' Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced the movie to shut down twice, ultimately stopping production for nearly five weeks. But given the importance of the location to the story, it's not like the movie could have relocated - not that anyone wanted to. ``We were shooting with mostly a local crew, so a lot of people lost their homes,'' Swank says. ``You just don't leave after something like that. Economically, the area needed us to be there.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) ``The Reaping'' Aug. 11 |
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