Call Jane Star Elizabeth Banks on Abortion Access, the Pitch Perfect Cinematic Universe, and Not Being the Ingenue Anymore

Elizabeth Banks grew up in a working-class Massachusetts family knowing that she wanted to go to college and have an ambitious career. “The only thing that can stand in the way of a woman doing those things is irresponsible ejaculation and the patriarchy,” she tells Vanity Fair, laughing hard beneath a pair of rose-tinted aviator glasses. Born in 1974, a year after the passage of Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the U.S., she found it hard to imagine that there had ever been a time pre-Roe when women didn’t have control over their reproductive choices—or that this right… Read Full Article