Elizabeth Banks covers the latest issue of The Edit, surprisingly NOT to promote Pitch Perfect 2. PP2 is already out and it’s already a massive hit, easily making $100 million-plus domestically in its first ten days of release. Banks gets so much credit for that too – she’s so badass!! Props to her and may this be the first of many directorial gigs. Anyway, Banks sat down with net-a-porter.com’s The Edit to promote her supporting part in Magic Mike: XXL. I didn’t realize it, but she’s playing a wild-and-crazy former stripper in the sequel. I bet she had a BLAST. Some highlights from the interview:

Her role in Magic Mike: “I play an ex-stripper. She’s a hot mess, she’s completely not me, which is great!”

Working with her husband Max Handelman on PP2: “Both Max and I have had to fight misconceptions. ‘She’s just a blond actress who works with her husband.’ ‘Who are they?’ ‘She’s not even that successful of an actress!’ But none of this is a vanity project. I want to tell stories and have more control over my life.”

Being a female director in Hollywood: “I don’t want to pretend it’s not what it is. You can’t not take up the cause the minute you accept the job. I made a funny movie – about girls – and it’s going to make money? It just doesn’t happen.”

Whether she has secret meetings with Lena Dunham & Angelina Jolie: “There’s no meeting because we’re all ****ing busy.”

Meeting her husband on the first day at University of Pennsylvania. “When I met Max. I was not like, ‘I just met my husband!’ I was 18; it was lust. He looked like Jason Priestley from Beverly Hills, 90210. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a college boy. That’s what I’m interested in.’”

Motherhood: “Motherhood changed me in positive ways. It made me more ambitious for my kids. I do everything for them now, because I want this success for my life with them…Directing is a big decision. It’s a year and a half of my life and it’s taking my kids out of their daily routine.”

[From The Edit]

The Edit also says that Banks is rumored for an extremely juicy role: Billie Jean King in a feature bio-pic. Which would be AMAZING. Does anyone else remember the TV movie When Billie Beat Bobby? Holly Hunter starred as Billie Jean King in that and she was fantastic!! But I could see Banks doing a great Billie as well. God, I hope it happens! As for the rest of it… Banks is amazing. I keep saying this, but she’s so inspirational.

Photos courtesy of Chad Pitman/The Edit.