In regards to the sexy (sex-filled) movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno:
“The truth of the matter is, they push the envelope every day on MTV videos on Gossip Girl, on Big Brother. Hello! Big Brother is all about night-vision cameras of real people having sex.”
Banks talks celebs…
On her juiciest celebrity encounter:
“Sean Penn. I’ve met him a couple times, and he is beyond juicy.”
Most mortifying moment in Hollywood:
“Oh God, there are a few. But Jake Gyllenhaal once approached me in a valet line, and I thought he thought I was someone else. I was confused and frosty and I’m sure I was very off-putting, and he had to remind me that we had met, that we had done a partial reading of Romeo and Juliet, I don’t have a good memory for names and faces, so my husband now calls it ‘The Gyllenhaal.’ Like if we go to some luncheon and meet new people, he tells me, ‘Don’t Gyllenhaal these people.’”
If you had to be stuck in an elevator, who’d you want to be stuck with?
“Johnny Depp. I don’t care if he’s too short to reach the elevator ceiling to help get us out. I don’t want to get out. I’m good with small spaces if Johnny Depp is in there.”
On Banks’ upcoming movie W, co-starring Josh Brolin:
“When Josh and I started taking about ours character I was like, ‘From everything I read and see about them, I think they’re really in love.’ They’re devoted, and that’s something I understood and could play.”
On Banks’ upcoming movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno with Seth Rogan as her co-star:
“[It is] the most romantic movie with anal sex that you are ever going to see.”
“Miri is my favorite character I’ve ever played. She’s lovable, she’s real, she has insecurities, but she still has confidence every once in a while. Kevin Smith really knows how to write women.”
“Seth and I watched a lot of sex. There was a lot of it happening around us, that’s for sure.”
Let’s talk about sex…
“Sex is always funny. I don’t find it sexy – I find it really horrifying. But it’s an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.”
WH asked - Sex: in the morning, afternoon, or night…or all of the above?
“The morning. Start the day off right.”
On her hubbie:
“He knows the truth. Sometimes I’m sexy, and sometimes I’m not. I don’t’ think I’m that special and he definitely doesn’t think I am. Because no one is that special. I’m not curing cancer; I’m not saving lives. I play make-believe for a living, so let’s not take it too seriously.”
On the men we can’t live with, and can’t live without:
“Everything they do is about trying to get laid, yet they’re maybe way too hairy, they fart, they have tempers. They don’t know what the real situation is, and it’s that struggle that I find really funny. Every man wins the lottery when he gets a woman to love him.”
“Who knows what they respond to? Don’t they respond to anything with a vagina?”
“There are guys who like big boobs and guys who like small boobs. And there are guys who like blondes and guys who like brunettes. Everyone’s attracted to something different, so you just want to find the person who’s attracted to you the way you are.”
If Elizabeth called the shots:
As Banks is playing Laura Bush in the movie W, she tells WH changes she would implement if she were commander-in-chief…
“Hail to the Chief” would be replaced with: “Whatever the president chooses, like when candidates choose their campaign songs. Or like when the batter is introduced at a ball game, and they play a few strains o the song he chooses. So for me, maybe, I don’t know…’1-900-Hustler.’”
Cabinet members would include: Jon Stewart, Hillary Clinton, and New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman
Books she’s have in the White House Library:
The Catcher in the Rye, Lolita, Rabbit Run, The Road, and the Bible
In redecorating the White House, the first thing to go would be, “the brocade – which would be getting rid of a lot. And then I’d get rid of all fringe and tassels.”
How she and Laura Bush are alike: “We’re both devoted to our husbands, and we’re both pro-choice.”
Beauty trends Banks refuses to get behind:
“I’m not a fan of plastic surgery. Oh, and I’ve never had a wax in my life. Waxing makes no sense to me because you have to grow it out to wax it. My [bikini area] is all shaved, and she looks good. I use a nice exfoliator, like Dermalogica.”
Banks’ fave fashion trend (For the weeklies - celeb favorites, etc):
“The whole bootie thing that’s going on right now, I have some silver Christian Louboutin booties that are the loves of my life.”
