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Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks sits down to talk with AMC about the upcoming movie.
She’s the versatile actress you’ve seen in movies such as “W” and “Our Idiot Brother.” Elizabeth Banks is back with her latest project, “Man on a Ledge,” the action thriller in which she plays a police negotiator.
We sat down with her this week to talk about her latest role and her memories of living in San Francisco.
Actress Elizabeth Banks gained big-screen recognition for her roles in “Sea-Biscuit” and “Spiderman.”
On T.V. she’s been a regular on comedies including “Scrubs” and “30 Rock.”
106.7 FM ‘The Fan’ movie reviewer Kevin McCarthy learned that even when she’s playing a serious role, as she does in the new movie “Man on a Ledge,” she likes to sneak in a little humor when she can.
Elizabeth Banks had a motto on the set of Man on a Ledge, and it was: “Thank God for Ed Burns.”
“I adore him,” she told The Hollywood Reporter of her co-star, whose film opens nationwide on Friday, Jan. 27.
The duo play a pair of NYPD officers who are forced to work together to talk Sam Worthington’s character down from the ledge. The film is directed by Asger Leth and required Banks to film many of her scenes from the top of a high rise in New York City.
“I’m not afraid of heights, I’m afraid of human error,” she told THR. “I’m afraid of like, did they actually put the harness on right and is my coat gonna get stuck in a window… is my boot gonna fall off. Anything can happen, and those are the things that scare me. Not the actual height.”
While Burns had his preparation in the bag with a family full of NYPD officers, Banks took the opportunity to meet with a female negotiator from Staten Island who taught her that, “the women on the force are constantly proving themselves over and over.”
“When they hear I’m playing a cop, of course they’re gonna break my balls about it,” Burns said of his father and three cousins who currently serve on the force. “But at the same time everybody gets a thrill out of seeing a family member in a big movie, that’s always pretty great. And then when I’m playing a cop, I’m sure they’ll see things that I didn’t do to the letter, let’s say, and I’ll hear about that.”
Speaking to his scenes with Banks, Burns added: “She and I hit it off immediately.”
Good Morning Arizona in Phoenix talked with Josh Hutcherson and Elizabeth Banks for segment on The Hunger Games that aired on January 30th.
With director Asger Leth’s (Ghosts of Cité Soleil) Man on a Ledge opening this weekend, I recently got to speak with most of the cast about making the movie. The film centers on an ex-cop (Sam Worthington) convicted of a crime he didn’t commit who stands on the ledge of a Manhattan building, threatening to kill himself. However, what appears to be a suicide attempt is something else altogether. The film also stars Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Banks, Ed Burns, Titus Welliver, Genesis Rodriguez, Kyra Sedgwick, and Ed Harris.
During my interview with Banks we talked about how she got involved in Man on a Ledge, what kind of research she typically does for a role, and karaoke. In addition, we talked about how instrumental Jack Donaghy was in freeing her from North Korea and hints that she may be the assassin that killed Kim Jong Il (it’s a 30 Rock thing).
When asked how she prepared for the role, Elizabeth Banks said she had met with a NYPD officer from Staten Island. She said, “There is a great attitude about New York City police officers and I feel like with Ed Burns there, that we really brought that out.”
