Banks, 37, is petite and pretty, but she does, in fact, look a little freakish. Her brows have been bleached to invisibility so she can wear the mask of makeup required for what is sure to be the most watched and scrutinized role of her career—as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s hugely popular dystopian trilogy. Trinket is the pink-haired “mentor” to teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she’s forced to fight other kids to the death on TV. Banks, who got the role after hounding director Gary Ross, with whom she’d worked on Secretariat, had long been a fan of the books. “I definitely see parallels” to today’s world, she says. “The Hunger Games is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society.”

It’s not America—yet—but she does worry. “We have a problem where the top 1 percent controls everything and then 99 percent of Americans don’t have a say in their daily life. That stuff really affects me because I grew up in a working-class family—I worked three jobs in college—and my parents and sisters all lost jobs recently.”

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There you have it, straight from the horses mouth that Elizabeth won’t have eyebrows in the upcoming Hunger Games movie and that she went out to get the role. Looking forward to seeing more about the film and images of Elizabeth!

“The studio execs were like, ‘People don’t want to see girls [in the bathroom].’ And I was like, ‘I’m writing from experience! You go to a club and you have to wait in a huge line, so people double up. And, yes, you think you’re only going to take a little pee, but sometimes some poops come out.’ We never got the pooping scene as right as they got it in ‘Bridesmaids.’”

The plot was very similar to Bridesmaids in the vein that a bride is forced to make her cousin into her maid of honor, needless to say it was never anything more than a script.

Here’s a clip from the upcoming Our Idiot Brother featuring Elizabeth, stay tuned for more updates to the site coming soon!

Elizabeth attended the BAFTA Brits To Watch Event earlier this month and I’ve added images of the event to the gallery.

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The trailer for Elizabeth’s upcoming film, Our Idiot Brother has been released, and we have added images to the gallery. You can check them out and view the trailer below!

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Rumors have been going around that Elizabeth is among a few hollywood actresses for the role of the upcoming film, The Silver Linings Playbook. Check it out:

The next few days may very well determine which actress gets the golden ticket to star in The Silver Linings Playbook, director David O Russell’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning comeback film, The Fighter.

The Weinstein Co. movie again reteams Russell with his Fighter star Mark Wahlberg in the story of a man who suffers from a mental collapse and is released from a health facility determined to find the silver linings in his life.

The hot Hollywood role of the moment is that of a depressed woman who, when her husband dies, goes on a sexual spree, even at the cost of her job. She befriends the man and becomes his love interest.

According to insiders, Russell is intensely screen-testing the following in-demand actresses in Los Angeles starting today and going into the weekend: Elizabeth Banks, Kirsten Dunst, Blake Lively, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, Andrea Riseborough and Olivia Wilde.

Sources also say Jennifer Lawrence may be in the running as well but that is unclear.

Russell is eyeing an August start date.

Hello everyone! My name is Chelsa and I will be helping out here at Elizabeth Banks Online! I am so excited to help out at this fantastic site, so lets get started! I have added to event images that Elizabeth attended early this month that we were missing from our gallery. Enjoy!

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