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Pitch Perfect 2 star Elizabeth Banks covers the June issue of Allure and opens up about her happy family life with husband Max Handelman and their two sons Felix, 4, and Magnus, 2.

On making her movie-directing debut with Pitch Perfect 2: “Once you get offered a studio job, as a woman, it’s really hard to say no because they don’t let women do this very often. So I knew I needed to embrace it and I couldn’t mess it up. Because if you mess it up, they don’t let you do it again, and you become representative of female directors as a whole. Like, ‘See, girls can’t do it!’”

On her personal theme: “If I had to pick a theme of the things that I do it would be: Girls win…. It’s a good theme.”

On her happy marriage: “I didn’t meet my husband and think, I’ve met the man I’m going to marry. I was like, He’s cute. I’ll f*ck him, because I’m 18 and in college….Really, what happened was I’ve never met anyone that I liked more. In the early years, did I have crushes or little interests here and there? I know my husband did, and so did I, but we stayed together. We still to this day take the long view. We have always dreamed about our life together. And we work together every day, and we have a lot of respect for each other on every level. And then there’s love. And then there’s lust. So it’s great.”

For more from Elizabeth, go to Allure…

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