{"id":335382,"date":"2025-12-08T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/acting\/how-elizabeth-banks-literally-fell-into-performing\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:58:49","slug":"how-elizabeth-banks-literally-fell-into-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=335382","title":{"rendered":"How Elizabeth Banks &#8220;Literally Fell into Performing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-ast-blocks-layout=\"true\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/elizabeth-banks-skincare.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Banks in the film, Skincare\" class=\"wp-image-266691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/elizabeth-banks-skincare.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/elizabeth-banks-skincare-356x200.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/elizabeth-banks-skincare-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/elizabeth-banks-skincare-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Emmy Award-nominated actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/tag\/elizabeth-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elizabeth Banks<\/strong><\/a> may be best known for her roles in <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> and <em>Pitch Perfect<\/em> franchises, but she has developed a varied career both in front and behind the camera in a variety of genres. However, in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/culture\/entertainment\/a62595237\/elizabeth-banks-career-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em><\/a>, Banks confesses that she didn\u2019t initially have a desire to become an actress and also speaks about how her role in <em>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/em> became a significant breakthrough in her career.<\/p>\n<p>Banks reveals that she initially started to act simply because she needed to find a new after-school activity. She explains, \u201cI got into acting by accident. I literally fell into performing. I was a student athlete, and I broke my leg sliding into third base playing softball when I was 13. I needed to find something new to do after school while my parents were at work. I joined the cast of <em>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> playing Pontius Pilate, so I could wear a robe over my cast. I really found that it was like playing sports, in that you had a team of people, and you were all going to put on the show together, everybody was relying on each other to play their part well, and at the end, everybody claps. I thought: \u2018Wow, acting might be for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-elizabeth-banks-breakthrough-role-in-the-40-year-old-virgin\">Elizabeth Banks\u2019 Breakthrough Role in <em>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Though Banks is primarily known for her roles in comedy films, she needed a breakthrough role in the genre to get casting agents to consider her for comedic roles. She shares.\u00a0\u201cThe unexpected curveball of my career was <em>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/em>. After <em>Seabiscuit<\/em>, I mostly was being considered for dramatic roles. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/tag\/acting-colleges\/\">went to drama school<\/a>, and I studied Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen, so I really knew the classics. It looked as if I was a very classic actress at that time, but I knew I was funny, and I always thought I would be in romantic comedies. I was the last person to audition for the role of Beth in <em>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/em>. I did improv in the audition with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/tag\/steve-carell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steve Carell<\/strong><\/a>, and ended up taking a lot of that improv to the set. That role really reset people\u2019s ideas about what I could do as an actress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy Award-nominated actress Elizabeth Banks may be best known for her roles in The Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect franchises, but she has developed a varied career both in front and behind the camera in a variety of genres. However, in an interview with Harper\u2019s Bazaar, Banks confesses that she didn\u2019t initially have a desire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12021],"tags":[11297,160644,5743,160645,4731,8224,24546,26481,97993],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-335382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acting","tag-banks","tag-early-acting-career","tag-elizabeth","tag-elizabeth-banks","tag-featured","tag-fell","tag-literally","tag-performing","tag-steve-carell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Elizabeth Banks &quot;Literally Fell into Performing&quot; - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=335382\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Elizabeth Banks &quot;Literally Fell into Performing&quot; - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Emmy Award-nominated actress Elizabeth Banks may be best known for her roles in The Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect franchises, but she has developed a varied career both in front and behind the camera in a variety of genres. 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