Hey dear listeners, today's guest is the incredibly talented director, writer, producer, and actress

Elizabeth Banks, who you know from Charlie's Angels, The Hunger Games,

Pitch Perfect, 30 Rock, and a million other things. I really hope you enjoy our talk.

I hope it's a welcome distraction from everything going on. I like to tell myself that you are all

safe, indoors, and healthy. I know that's wishful thinking. Just know that I'm thinking about you.

Meanwhile, please reach out to us here at Unqualified. Send us your questions, your answers,

and your stories to our website unqualified.com. And now here she is, Elizabeth Banks.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to Unqualified with your host, Anna Ferris.

How are you doing? Like in the quarantine? Are you homeschooling yet? What are you on spring break?

I think my son has been homeschooling me more than I have been him. But we are, our show is off

for the season. We took an early hiatus and everything. And what about you guys? I know that

like a lot of movies have been so we were not in the middle of anything. And we we have a

of writer's room that's up and running, which is great. I have a show coming out, Mrs. America,

in April on FX on Hulu. So that was already happening. Who's in that? That's one of these great

ones where I got to go work with like so many amazing women. I'm so happy about. I love that you do

that. You've been such a pioneer. When doing press for as a director, what time to be the most

annoying questions? Like as a female director, is it so female centric? It's hard. It's really hard.

It's hard because you get a lot of look at you, feminist. And you're like, I'm just trying to be a

filmmaker. I just happen to tell a story about a bunch of women. I don't know, you know, back in the

day, Jane Campy and I'm sure was not asked like, you made the piano with this female star and this

little girl in a pack when how what is your big feminist statement? It's like, it's hard because you

at the same time, the journalists, I feel need validation that women are doing better.

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