Entertainment 14-01-2005 who: Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank what: Says she nearly died training for Clint Eastwood movie when: This week snippet: Five years after winning a Best Actress award for her performance in Boys Don`t Cry, Swank is tipped for Oscar success again in Million Dollar Baby, which is released in the UK this weekend, says The Mirror. She tells Anthony Harwood that she got blisters on her feet from training so hard and when she popped the blisters in the bath "she developed potentially fatal blood poisoning". Worse still, she "refused to tell [director and co-star] Clint - thinking it would justify his fear that she was not up to the part". Also released this weekend and reviewed in the papers are Team America: World Police, Closer (featuring Clive Owen), 2046 and Vanity Fair (starring Reese Witherspoon). [... more]

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