An interview with Elizabeth Banks in the New York Times tied to the release of her new film Call Jane turned for a time into an exploration of an older film Banks directed, Charlie’s Angels.
Banks called it “a long conversation that I don’t know that I want to get into.”Pressed by interviewer David Marchese, Banks offered that she is proud of the movie and the actors in it.
She then pushed back on what she sees as a narrative that has developed about the film.“There was a story around Charlie’s Angels that I was creating some feminist manifesto.
I was just making an action movie,” Banks said plainly. “I would’ve liked to have made Mission: Impossible, but women aren’t directing Mission: Impossible.
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