The New York Times has a video interview with Elizabeth that you can view on Youtube - or stream it below!

You can stream Elizabeth’s appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” below. Elizabeth looked amazing!

The Dish Rag recently caught up with Elizabeth Banks, who plays first lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s controversial new George W. Bush film, “W.”

DR: What’s the secret to playing a believable Republican first lady?

EB: “It’s all about the hair. Hair speaks volumes about every politician’s wife. And I think you’ll be impressed with my version of Laura Bush’s very Republican hair. I did meet Laura once, in 2003, long before I knew I’d be playing her.”

DR: What do you think about the film’s portrayal of the Bush family?

EB: “The film really presents both sides. People who like George Bush will find many things in the movie to like and people who don’t like George Bush will have their opinion validated as well. It’s a fairly fair portrayal.”

From the Los Angeles Times

A real guy’s girl…or at least one who appreciates men enough to ham up the part. So we asked the actress to toss us some knowledge.

Elizabeth Banks wants to show off her bruises. Big, purple, nasty-looking suckers dotting her back. She’s got a reputation for being tough, the tomboy of Hollywood, but this is unnerving.

“It’s called cupping,” she explains. “They heat up the air inside a glass and it sucks your muscles. It supposedly removes toxins. Today was only my second time.”

So it turns out her war wounds are nothing more than new-age hickeys, which is disappointing. Because Banks is the guy’s girl. The one who holds her own opposite Steve Carell (and a showerhead) in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. The one who’s fucking Seth Rogen on YouTube and making Eddie Murphy palatable in the upcoming Meet Dave. Later this year, the thirty-four-year-old will pull off the greatest theatrical 180 ever — playing an amateur adult-film star in Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s W. So she’s a guy’s girl. And she’s not. Either way, we trust her enough to listen when she tells us a few things we don’t know about women.

No. 1

We appreciate nature. The other day, my girlfriend said to me, “You know, there was this bird that hit its head, and he was lying on the deck, and I thought he was dead until he moved a little. I’m going to have to take him to the vet.” Let me tell you who would not take that bird to the vet: moi. Don’t care. Let nature take its course. Some cat will eat that bird and everything will be fine. If the bird was stupid enough to fly into the door, oh well. And it’s not that I don’t like birds. I like birds.

No. 2

We actually do like video games, just not the ones where you kill people. I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I’m always the one throwing down on the mic. I don’t love the gun games. X-Y-A-B? I don’t know any of the moves, and I don’t have the time to learn that shit.

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