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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
the Lee Matthews Podcast more what You Hear

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. I've
seen her in so many things. She's

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one of my favorites. Nancy Travis. Just wrapping up starring opp asite Tim

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Allen and the Fox comedy hit Last
Man Standing, Three Minute of Baby,

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the Jane Austen Book Club, Sisterhood
of the Traveling Pants, and it goes

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on and on and on. She's
also featured along with Hillary Swank and a

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new movie you've probably seen a lot
of references to online and in social media.

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It's called Ordinary Angels. It's out
now. Nancy Travis, It's so

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nice to have you here. Thank
you. It's my pleasure, this pleasure

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to come and talk to you about
this great movie. This has been one

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of those two that I think I've
seen more exposure on social media than many

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films before. I have to agree. I mean, I thought that was

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just me because I follow all of
the links to the producers of the studio

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and everybody. But it is all
over and it's a real testament to the

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marketing team to get this thing out. I mean, and that said,

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I'm really proud to be part of
it and behind it, and I think

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it's a story that's really going to
connect with people, certainly in a landscape

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of outrageous and extravagant movies, and
certainly in a time when the world is

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a little or quite a bit upside
down. I'd have to say, well,

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I think that's a good thing too, because that seems to be where

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the people are going these days to
get away from all the upside down this

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they're finding some relief and some connection
on social media. So it's good that

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this film is being marketed there.
But let's get to what Ordinary Angels is

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about. Yes, it's a very
inspiring movie that will we will move you

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and leave you feeling very uplifted and
hopeful. It's based on a true story

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about a little girl in Louisville,
Kentucky who needs a liver transplant and her

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father who's played by Alan Richson.
I don't know if you know him,

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but he's amazing. He plays Reacher
and he is Yeah, he's like,

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he's he's going to be such a
huge star. He's he's he's like John

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Wayne or Tom Selleck or you know
one of these leading men who are big

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and rugged sensitive, rugged and very
yeah, exactly, and he so he's

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up against it. I mean,
he's got this little girl, he can't

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pay his bills, his wife passed
away from the same disease. And in

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steps Hillary Swank, who is a
local hairdresser who's got her own demons that

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she's trying to deal with, and
she she makes this the mission of helping

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this family her her reason to be
and even though they don't want it at

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first, she she pushes and she
helps them pay their bills, and at

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the end of the day, in
the most miraculous way, she helps them

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get to Nebraska to get a liver. When a liver becomes available for this

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little girl. And look, I
mean, if you have to see the

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movie, but if it wasn't true, you'd hardly believe it. I mean,

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this liver is available when it's the
biggest snowstorm in Louisville history, and

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it seems impossible to get to Nebraska
to get this liver, and not just

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Hillary Swank's character, but the entire
community come out at the last minute and

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they shovel snow they get her there. It's really incredibly uplifting and it makes

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sense, and it's true and I
don't know. I love being in it.

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I play Alan Richson's mom. I'm
the mom. I'm the woman who's

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watching all this go down and listening
and trying to be helpful and kind of

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struggling with it myself. Ordinary Angels
stars Nancy Travis along with Hillary swankets out

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now. And I can tell you
did your homework Louisville. If you're from

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Louisville, Kentucky, that's how you
pronounce it. It's never Louisville, yes,

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right, or Louisville. Go there
to know Louville. Well, you

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and Hillary both are. You and
Hillary are so good at accents, So

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I can't wait to see you together
in this movie accenting each other. But

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does it come naturally for you?
Do you have an ear for that?

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I feel like I do. I
mean maybe it's growing up in a home

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that had so many different accents.
My father's from England and my mother is

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from Queens, New York, and
there's just a lot of different accents going

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around and people speaking at different volumes, and it was a lot. But

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I do. It's like music to
me. I like it. How about

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language? Do you do different different
languages as well? Because I find I

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have the ear for accents, so
when I studied foreign language, I had

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an easier time at pronouncing the words. Maybe, but that might be my

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own ego. I mean I studied
Italian in Spanish, and I have to

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say now I speak a mishmash of
it. So when I go to a

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foreign country, I act like I
know how to speak the language. But

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it could be coming out. I
mean it really is obnoxious, So I

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mean it is. I would love
to actually just that's the fantasy of mine,

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to just go to a country and
live there and immerse myself and learn

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to speak a different language. But
that's after this movie comes out. That's

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later. Well, you'd be amazed
when you do immerse yourself in the countries.

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How it all kind of comes back
to you really quickly, really quickly.

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But the movie is Ordinary Angels and
it stars Hillary Swank along with Nancy

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Travis, who is with us here
and Nancy. Is it unusual? I

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mean I've seen you play a variety
of different rules. Now you're playing almost

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a grandmother Hillary Swank as well.
Is that unusual for you or do you

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just feel it's a natural progression of
your career? Oh? My God,

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it's all unusual, I have to
say. I mean, I don't I

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don't know how I got here.
I mean, of course I'm older,

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but I I even look around in
my own kids and I don't know how

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I got here. They're adults now, and I mean, yeah, like

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I said, I got this role
and I thought, how is it that

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I'm playing this guy's mother. It's
just an extraordinary thing, But it really

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is. It's just it's just relationships. It's just people to people, and

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and very much, honestly, it's
very much what acting is and what this

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film is. This film is just
trying to say, we're all here,

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we're just people, We're here to
help each other, and let's take advantage

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of that. Well, I think
losing people seem to be losing faith that

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that these kinds of things still do
happen, These kinds of miracles still happen

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in everyday life. They do,
and and the truth is they're in all

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of us. I mean, it's
just everyday people. And actually, if

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you think about it, and we
were all we all do this, we're

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all capable of this, and it's
it doesn't have to be a grand gesture,

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but sometimes it's a small thing.
And I think in this age of

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everyone kind of hold up behind their
screen or in their house or away or

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walking away, I mean it's time
to sort of look the other way and

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instead of looking at each other and
saying I hate you for whatever reason,

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kind of let's see where we agree. Let's come together in a way.

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I feel like I'm in a pulpit
now, but I'm not a paultit.

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But well, I mean it really
is kind of you know, would help

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things a lot, but it's not
in the movie. The movie is not

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Preachy. It is Ordinary Angels.
Along with Nancy Travis and Alan ritch In

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and Hillary Swank. It is out
and ow in theaters. If you want

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to see a trailer for the movie, I've got it posted on the website,

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so check it out and then go
see the movie. Nancy Travis,

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thanks for bringing us the story and
joining us today. Oh I loved it.

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Thanks so much. YEP, thanks
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