Swank convinced the producers to move the film's setting from New England to the Deep South, and the film was being filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina struck.
Leta 2007 je Hilary Swank producirala in igrala v filmu "Besede svobode", drami o resnični učiteljici, Erin Gruwell, ki je navdihnila kalifornijsko srednjo šolo.