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team – but that didn’t stop her from checking her harness 15 times.

Banks wasn’t merely motivated by the action. Her character carries a lot of personal and professional baggage into the situation.

“I tend to find in these sorts of things that the woman has to be particularly bitchy or cold. This character felt very authentic to me,” Banks says. “I also liked (that) the role felt gender-neutral. It didn’t matter she was a woman. I think it added something to it that she’s female and clearly they wanted a little romance. You got Sam Worthington on the big screen you might as well give him a love interest.”

Banks, who is best known for lighter projects like Scrubs, 30 Rock and Zack And Miri Make A Porno, doesn’t plan to permanently trade laughs and giggles for fights and felons. She wishes there were more comedy roles, and she realised after seeing last year’s comedy dry spell that the good ones are rare.

She’s trying to create more funny movies through her own production company.

“I have a production company because this is the only job I know and this is then only career I have and the only industry I have worked in and the only contacts that I have. Why wouldn’t I produce? Great ideas can come from anywhere. I love storytelling. I’m a trained storyteller. I believe that’s what actors do,” Banks says. “But, as an actor, you come into the process last. All I get to do in this film is play Lydia Mercer and I don’t even control that because they edit the (expletive) out of it.

“As a producer, I get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to chose the collaborators and that’s really gratifying as a storyteller.”

Banks didn’t start the production company just to create projects for herself. But she does have a project in the works with Disney for which she would play Tinker Bell in a live- DON’T miss out on the chance to watch Sam Worthington in his latest film Man On A Ledge. GSC Movies is giving away 85 pairs of tickets to The Star readers to enjoy the special screening today, a day before its general release. The movie is rated 18.

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> Each person is entitled to redeem one coupon only. action movie. In the story, Tinker Bell gets tossed out of Neverland and has to fend for herself in the real world. Banks loves the idea of playing Tink, but she remains very realistic about the project.

“We are in the script stage and everyone is really excited, but that doesn’t mean anything,” she says. “You might as well not even write it down.” – The Fresno Bee McclatchyTribune Information Services