On this week's episode, we're joined by writer, producer, director, actress, and all-around badass Elizabeth frickin' Banks! She talks to us about her experience using a surrogate, what she learned working with Spielberg, and why Cocaine Bear is secretly a revenge film.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat

Actress Elizabeth Banks feels cautiously optimistic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.   Elizabeth sits down with Conan to chat about standing up to her childhood bullies, communion, and mixing horror and comedy in her new film Cocaine Bear. Plus, a Neil Diamond song takes Conan on a trip down a memory lane of mishear

Elizabeth Banks says she’s the kind of person who likes to get ‘A’s on tests. And in show business, directing feature films for Hollywood studios is the ultimate test. Elizabeth and Marc talk about how her imposter syndrome faded over the past few years and how Elizabeth feels like she’s acing the test as she finishes

Actor Elizabeth Banks discusses her film “Call Jane” about The Jane Collective of Chicago, which provided abortion health care pre-Roe v. Wade, the dangers and desperate situations people find themselves in when they don’t want to be pregnant, and her goal to destigmatize abortion procedures.  See omnystudio.com/listen

Pennsylvania Senate candidates John Fetterman and Dr. Mehmet Oz square off in a debate, Desi Lydic explores the origins of Halloween, and Elizabeth Banks discusses her movie "Call Jane." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elizabeth Banks decided a long time ago she would control her own destiny in Hollywood. In her two decades on screen, Banks has earned three Emmy nominations, starred in the Hunger Games franchise and produced all three of the Pitch Perfect movies which together made more than 600 million dollars at the box office. In