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  Elizabeth Banks Defends 'Controversial' Cocaine Bear Scene of Kids on Drugs: 'There Were Conversations'

  Cocaine Bear, which is inspired by a true story, is in theaters Feb. 24

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  Cocaine Bear: True story of infamous bear who consumed duffel bag of cocaine and got Hollywood treatment

  Animal overdosed after it ate 70 pounds of drugs thrown out of plane by infamous smuggler

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  Drug-addled black bear goes on vicious rampage in new trailer for Cocaine Bear

  Directed by US actress Elizabeth Banks, the story is loosely based on the events of an 1985 drug-smuggling operation that went wrong.

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  Dear Elizabeth review – famous name decorates warm-hearted loser comedy

  Hapless Sid tries inviting famous one-time pal Elizabeth Banks to his college reunion. Nothing goes to plan – but the film retains real warmth

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  Call Jane

  When they made the film in 2021, the Call Jane team could never have known just how relevant their film would become by the time it was released in cinemas. The film shines a light on the Jane Collective or Jane, an underground organisation that gave women safe abortions in Chicago between 1969 and 1973, when they were illegal in America. The story, set in the late '60s, is told through the eyes of Joy (Elizabeth Banks), a conservative, Christian housewife who learns that her pregnancy is life-t

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  Elizabeth Banks Says Ray Liotta 'Had a Great Time' Making Cocaine Bear Weeks Before His Death

  The director previously paid tribute to the late actor, saying she "genuinely enjoyed him as a human"

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  Elizabeth Banks: I could perform an abortion after my latest role

  Elizabeth Banks says could "perform an abortion" herself after starring in 'Call Jane' and learning about the termination procedure on the set of her new movie.

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  The true story of the Janes: How a secret network provided thousands of abortions in the US in the 1960s

  In 1965, before women in America had the constitutional right to choose abortion, a then 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago helped a friend find a doctor who was willing to carry out the procedure illegally. With desperate women putting their lives in danger by seeking back-alley terminations, it wasn't long before more were contacting Heather Booth. The secret group worked together to provide an estimated 11,000 to 12,000 women and girls with safe and secure abortions before the

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  Call Jane director Phyllis Nagy on the pre-Roe v Wade activists who inspired her movie with Elizabeth Banks

  The filmmaker had no idea just how relevant her movie, about a woman seeking an abortion in the 1960s, would become

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  Elizabeth Banks is 'very open' with her children about sex

  Actress Elizabeth Banks has insisted she's 'not embarrassed' to talk to her children about sex and wants those conversations to happen 'early and often'

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