“The Hunger Games” actress Elizabeth Banks makes her debut as a feature film director in the musical comedy “Pitch Perfect 2” and hopes to inspire more women to get behind the camera.
Banks also appears in the sequel to the 2012 “Pitch Perfect” box office hit about a girls college singing group. The new film stars U.S. actresses Anna Kendrick and Hailee Steinfeld and Australian Rebel Wilson.
Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in “The Hunger Games” franchise, has previously directed short films but “Pitch Perfect 2”, in which she reprises the role of Gail, is her first time in the director’s chair for a major feature film
