HollyWood Reporter: ‘Hunger Games’: Elizabeth Banks Picks Team Peeta Because of ‘The Way He Loves Katniss So Deeply’

Posted by amanda in Mar 23, 2012 with No Comments

The cultural frenzy over Hunger Games, opening on Friday, is hitting new heights.

Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks — fresh off the film’s European press tour — was the special guest at last night’s Slate.com Culture Gabfest, a podcast now up on the site. The March 20 event was presented in partnership with Zocalo Public Square and held at the Petersen Car Museum on Wilshire Blvd.

After lively discussions between three dazzlingly smart, facile and amusing Slate editors (Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, Stephen Metcalf) about the controversy over Mike Daisey’s Apple computer expose on NPR, proven to be filled with lies, and the merits of the manic pixie girlfriend feminine archetype symbolized by Zoey Deschanel on The New Girl, Banks was brought onstage to answer questions about her hotly anticipated new Lionsgate film.

Read More: ‘Hunger Games’: Elizabeth Banks Picks Team Peeta Because of ‘The Way He Loves Katniss So Deeply’ – Hollywood Reporter.



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