This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast more what You Hear
weekday afternoons on the Drive. I've seen her in so many things. She's
one of my favorites. Nancy Travis. Just wrapping up starring opp asite Tim
Allen and the Fox comedy hit Last Man Standing, Three Minute of Baby,
the Jane Austen Book Club, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and it goes
on and on and on. She's also featured along with Hillary Swank and a
new movie you've probably seen a lot of references to online and in social media.
It's called Ordinary Angels. It's out now. Nancy Travis, It's so
nice to have you here. Thank you. It's my pleasure, this pleasure
to come and talk to you about this great movie. This has been one
of those two that I think I've seen more exposure on social media than many
films before. I have to agree. I mean, I thought that was
just me because I follow all of the links to the producers of the studio
and everybody. But it is all over and it's a real testament to the
marketing team to get this thing out. I mean, and that said,
I'm really proud to be part of it and behind it, and I think
it's a story that's really going to connect with people, certainly in a landscape
of outrageous and extravagant movies, and certainly in a time when the world is
a little or quite a bit upside down. I'd have to say, well,
I think that's a good thing too, because that seems to be where
the people are going these days to get away from all the upside down this
they're finding some relief and some connection on social media. So it's good that
this film is being marketed there. But let's get to what Ordinary Angels is
about. Yes, it's a very inspiring movie that will we will move you
and leave you feeling very uplifted and hopeful. It's based on a true story
about a little girl in Louisville, Kentucky who needs a liver transplant and her
father who's played by Alan Richson. I don't know if you know him,
but he's amazing. He plays Reacher and he is Yeah, he's like,
he's he's going to be such a huge star. He's he's he's like John
Wayne or Tom Selleck or you know one of these leading men who are big
and rugged sensitive, rugged and very yeah, exactly, and he so he's
up against it. I mean, he's got this little girl, he can't
pay his bills, his wife passed away from the same disease. And in
steps Hillary Swank, who is a local hairdresser who's got her own demons that
she's trying to deal with, and she she makes this the mission of helping
this family her her reason to be and even though they don't want it at
first, she she pushes and she helps them pay their bills, and at
the end of the day, in the most miraculous way, she helps them
get to Nebraska to get a liver. When a liver becomes available for this
little girl. And look, I mean, if you have to see the
movie, but if it wasn't true, you'd hardly believe it. I mean,
this liver is available when it's the biggest snowstorm in Louisville history, and
it seems impossible to get to Nebraska to get this liver, and not just
Hillary Swank's character, but the entire community come out at the last minute and
they shovel snow they get her there. It's really incredibly uplifting and it makes
sense, and it's true and I don't know. I love being in it.
I play Alan Richson's mom. I'm the mom. I'm the woman who's
watching all this go down and listening and trying to be helpful and kind of
struggling with it myself. Ordinary Angels stars Nancy Travis along with Hillary swankets out
now. And I can tell you did your homework Louisville. If you're from
Louisville, Kentucky, that's how you pronounce it. It's never Louisville, yes,
right, or Louisville. Go there to know Louville. Well, you
and Hillary both are. You and Hillary are so good at accents, So
I can't wait to see you together in this movie accenting each other. But
does it come naturally for you? Do you have an ear for that?
I feel like I do. I mean maybe it's growing up in a home
that had so many different accents. My father's from England and my mother is
from Queens, New York, and there's just a lot of different accents going
around and people speaking at different volumes, and it was a lot. But
I do. It's like music to me. I like it. How about
language? Do you do different different languages as well? Because I find I
have the ear for accents, so when I studied foreign language, I had
an easier time at pronouncing the words. Maybe, but that might be my
own ego. I mean I studied Italian in Spanish, and I have to
say now I speak a mishmash of it. So when I go to a
foreign country, I act like I know how to speak the language. But
it could be coming out. I mean it really is obnoxious, So I
mean it is. I would love to actually just that's the fantasy of mine,
to just go to a country and live there and immerse myself and learn
to speak a different language. But that's after this movie comes out. That's
later. Well, you'd be amazed when you do immerse yourself in the countries.
How it all kind of comes back to you really quickly, really quickly.
But the movie is Ordinary Angels and it stars Hillary Swank along with Nancy
Travis, who is with us here and Nancy. Is it unusual? I
mean I've seen you play a variety of different rules. Now you're playing almost
a grandmother Hillary Swank as well. Is that unusual for you or do you
just feel it's a natural progression of your career? Oh? My God,
it's all unusual, I have to say. I mean, I don't I
don't know how I got here. I mean, of course I'm older,
but I I even look around in my own kids and I don't know how
I got here. They're adults now, and I mean, yeah, like
I said, I got this role and I thought, how is it that
I'm playing this guy's mother. It's just an extraordinary thing, But it really
is. It's just it's just relationships. It's just people to people, and
and very much, honestly, it's very much what acting is and what this
film is. This film is just trying to say, we're all here,
we're just people, We're here to help each other, and let's take advantage
of that. Well, I think losing people seem to be losing faith that
that these kinds of things still do happen, These kinds of miracles still happen
in everyday life. They do, and and the truth is they're in all
of us. I mean, it's just everyday people. And actually, if
you think about it, and we were all we all do this, we're
all capable of this, and it's it doesn't have to be a grand gesture,
but sometimes it's a small thing. And I think in this age of
everyone kind of hold up behind their screen or in their house or away or
walking away, I mean it's time to sort of look the other way and
instead of looking at each other and saying I hate you for whatever reason,
kind of let's see where we agree. Let's come together in a way.
I feel like I'm in a pulpit now, but I'm not a paultit.
But well, I mean it really is kind of you know, would help
things a lot, but it's not in the movie. The movie is not
Preachy. It is Ordinary Angels. Along with Nancy Travis and Alan ritch In
and Hillary Swank. It is out and ow in theaters. If you want
to see a trailer for the movie, I've got it posted on the website,
so check it out and then go see the movie. Nancy Travis,
thanks for bringing us the story and joining us today. Oh I loved it.
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