When Rolling Stone spoke with Elizabeth Banks this past week, her newest directorial project Cocaine Bear came up in conversation. She spoke about how she truly loved working on the film, stating, “I loved how subversive, crazy, silly, and funny it was. I loved surprising people with the cast. I don’t think anyone was expecting Margo Martindale, who’s 70 years old, to shoot that kid. We had a lot of fun, and if I got the opportunity to surprise the audience and delight myself again, I would take it.”
The Hollywood Reporter, who covered the story, also noted that her directing career treads a similar wave to her acting career, where “she can helm big, fun, bloody genre pictures in addition to things like Pitch Perfect 2 and Charlie’s Angels.”
In the same interview, Banks also talks about her newest film, Apple TV+’s The Beanie Bubble, which follows the story of the Beanie Baby craze that took over in the 1990s and 2000s. She compared the film to Tetris, another AppleTV+ film, and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. The Hollywood Reporter notes that lately there is a trend of films following nostalgic phenomena to cater towards a now older audience. They state, “People are creating films and TV shows now that look back at the things that were a big part of their formative years.”
The rest of Banks’s interview with Rolling Stone can be read here.
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