Elizabeth Banks Apologizes to Steven Spielberg
by EG
Elizabeth Banks messed up, and she is very sorry.
Those are the words Banks used in a tweet posted Thursday afternoon, a lengthy apology directed at Steven Spielberg and anyone offended by her comments on Tuesday night from the podium at Women in Film's Crystal + Lucy Awards, where she claimed Spielberg had never directed a film featuring a female lead.
"I framed my comments inaccurately. I want to be clear from the start that I take full responsibility for what I said and I'm sorry," posted Banks, who made the gaffe during her acceptance speech for the Crystal Award for Excellence in Film, presented to her by Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley. "When I made the comments, I was thinking of recent films Steven directed, it was not my intention to dismiss the import of the iconic #TheColorPurple."
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Elizabeth Banks has appeared in Pitch Perfect and directed Pitch Perfect 2.