Elizabeth Banks calls out Hollywood double standard while discussing her 2019 Charlie's Angels movie

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Nearly three years after it hit theaters, Elizabeth Banks is calling out Hollywood hypocrisy when it came to marketing her 2019 movie Charlie's Angels.The 48-year-old actress, who made her feature directorial debut with 2015's Pitch Perfect 2 before taking the helm on Charlie's Angels, claimed the movie suffered from an industry double-standard.While she revealed in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times that she was trying to make an action movie, though it was billed by some as a 'feminist manifesto.' Calling out: Nearly three years after it hit theaters, Elizabeth Banks is calling out Hollywood hypocrisy when it came to marketing her 2019 movie Charlie's Angels Manifesto: While she revealed in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times that she was trying to make an action movie, though it was billed by some as a 'feminist manifesto''I would’ve liked to have made Mission: Impossible, but women aren’t directing Mission: Impossible, Banks said. 'I was able to direct an action movie, frankly, because it starred women and I’m a female director, and that is the confine right now in Hollywood,' she stated.

She added that an unnamed, 'big producer of big action movies' once told her straight up that she, 'couldn’t direct action, that male actors were not going to follow me.' Female director: 'I was able to direct an action movie, frankly, because it starred women and I’m a female director, and that is the confine right now in Hollywood,' she stated Producer: She added that an unnamed, 'big producer of big action movies' once told her straight up that she, 'couldn’t direct action, that male actors were not going to follow me''He was flummoxed at the idea that a woman would be able to lead The Rock on a CGI.