Elizabeth Banks

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🗓️ 7 November 2021

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Elizabeth Banks decided a long time ago she would control her own destiny in Hollywood. In her two decades on screen, Banks has earned three Emmy nominations, starred in the Hunger Games franchise and produced all three of the Pitch Perfect movies which together made more than 600 million dollars at the box office. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Banks to talk about her podcast and new business venture into canned wine.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.3	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.3	Got a great one for you today with one of the most talented and delightful people in all
0:14.2	of Hollywood.
0:15.2	I'll just say it.
0:16.2	Elizabeth Banks.
0:17.2	Who doesn't love Elizabeth Banks?
0:18.8	She's got so much going on, always does, always has.
0:22.2	She's got her own production company called Brownstone Productions.
0:25.6	One of the first things they ever did, I think was their second production.
0:29.2	There's a little movie called Pitch Perfect.
0:31.0	They bought the rights.
0:32.0	She and her husband Max, who started this company together almost 20 years ago, bought
0:36.4	the rights to pitch perfect.
0:38.6	This book, a nonfiction book about Occapel acquires, and the rest is history.
0:43.1	Three phenomenal movies that have made more than $600 million.
0:46.8	She directed Part 2.
0:48.2	She's a producer and actor in all of them.
0:50.5	And it's all part of this sort of through line in her career of creating opportunity for
0:55.7	herself.
0:56.7	She's got a great Emmy-nominated roles on TV shows, but supporting roles, 30 rock, modern
1:02.2	family, scrubs, and thought, if I'm going to control my own destiny, I'm going to start
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