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Elizabeth Banks Gets Frank About How To Get More Female Directors Hired · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood Seacrest, over sixteen years after the last film,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's Angels are returning to the silver screen later this fall,
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  Speaker 1: but this installment features powerful women both on and off camera,
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  Speaker 1: as Elizabeth Banks is directing and writing the movie, first
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  Speaker 1: woman to do so in the franchise's history. It's an
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate fact that Hollywood still lacks an equal balance of
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  Speaker 1: female directors, and Elizabeth tells the Hollywood Reporter to change
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  Speaker 1: that there needs to be leadership who trust women to
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  Speaker 1: do the job, adding quote, people ask me how I
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  Speaker 1: got Charlie's Angels. I didn't get Charlie's Angels. No filmmakers
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  Speaker 1: were trying to do anything with it, because most filmmakers
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  Speaker 1: are men. I wanted to make a movie about women
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  Speaker 1: working together and doing with a property that Hollywood already loves,
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  Speaker 1: gets a faster green light than some random story. It
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  Speaker 1: totally aligned with what I wanted to do as a filmmaker.
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  Speaker 1: Good on, Elizabeth Banks. Charlie's Angels hit theaters November fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood