Elizabeth Banks

Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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"Hunger Games” star and “Pitch Perfect 2” director Elizabeth Banks joins me at Petit Trois Le Valley in Sherman Oaks. Over pate and an Aperol spritz, we talk about how Bruce Willis was key to her nabbing an Oliver Stone film, what movie of hers she does not want her children to see, and her latest film The Beanie Bubble. Want next week’s episode now? Subscribe to Dinner’s on Me PLUS. As a subscriber, not only do you get access to new episodes one week early, but you’ll also be able to listen completely ad-free! Just click “Try Free” at the top of the Dinner’s on Me show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial today. A Sony Music Entertainment & A Kid Named Beckett production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The other day I was making lemonade with my sons, Beckett and Sully, and Beckett is a little bit of a perfectionist.
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1:03.8	the SAG After Strike. Hi, it's Jesse. Today on the show, The Mogul, Elizabeth Banks.
1:14.2	We'll talk about working together on Cocaine Bear, working with Stephen Spielberg, and how she's terrible at email.
1:21.3	If I don't respond right away, it's because I don't really care.
1:24.4	This is Dinner's On Me, and I'm your host, Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
1:31.0	Elizabeth Banks, well, I call her Liz, might hold the title of my longest friendship in Los Angeles.
1:37.6	We met on the set of what was her second film and my first. We were young and eager and very, very green to the business of being professional
1:46.3	actors.
1:47.4	But it was obvious from the get-go that Liz was going to conquer this business.
1:51.5	I mean, the confidence that she had, even back then, was otherworldly and mesmerizing.
1:57.1	Our friendship only deepened as she became more and more successful in Hollywood.
2:00.7	And I remember friends of mine who I was doing theater with in New York City asking, Our friendship only deepened as she became more and more successful in Hollywood,
2:05.3	and I remember friends of mine who I was doing theater with in New York City asking me,
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