Elizabeth Banks Says She Is Only Just Now Getting Leading Lady Offers: ‘I’m Often the Comic Relief’

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  1. > “I’m often given more comic relief parts,” she says. “So to have this offer felt like, wow, I’m going to be in every scene of this film, playing a character that’s very good at their job, it’s all very serious.”

    > “It’s really only been in my second life as an actress here that I’ve started playing the lead role,” Banks, 53, tells PEOPLE.

    > “It’s because I was a great ingenue for a long time. I played the lady in many movies to some great leading men,” she continues. “And then I had smaller roles in huge movies like The Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect, but never quite that DC or Marvel movie lead.”

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