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\n\tWith three features under her belt and two on the way, Elizabeth Banks recently opened up about the misogyny she\u2019s faced as a woman director.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 4x Emmy nominee opened up about being told she \u201ccan\u2019t direct men,\u201d despite having worked with the late Ray Liotta on the 2023 dark comedy horror Cocaine Bear<\/em>, which she used as an example.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI was literally told because I direct films that, \u2018You can\u2019t direct men. They won\u2019t follow you,’\u201d said Banks on The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em>. \u201cAnd then I directed Ray Liotta, who played Henry Hill in Goodfellas<\/em>, and I think I nailed it. Check the list off. It\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBanks added, \u201cDespite me knowing that I\u2019m in a great club, it\u2019s a really small club, and it needs more representation. We need more storytellers from different perspectives, angles. And we need more audiences to watch. \u2026 I\u2019m having a lot of fun making sure that women have a real sense of agency in whatever they\u2019re doing, whatever stories I\u2019m telling.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBanks discussed her experience directing while promoting her new Apple TV+ series The Miniature Wife<\/em>, in which she plays a writer who is made to feel figuratively small by her scientist husband (Matthew Macfadyen), who accidentally shrinks her to six inches small. <\/p>\n \n