Elizabeth Banks
[Starts with SNL monologue intro.] [band is playing music one the stage]Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Elizabeth Banks.
[Elizabeth Banks walks in and to the stage] [cheers and applause]Elizabeth Banks: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I hope I look okay. I just came from the gym. You may know me from the Hunger Games movies where I play Effie Trinket. I think we have a couple of Trinket heads in the audience tonight.
[Cut to Kyle Mooney wearing wig and make-up as Effie Trinket in the audience]Kyle: [Screaming] Yes!
[Cut to Elizabeth Banks]Elizabeth Banks: Now, most of you probably know me as an actress but I also recently caught the directing bug. That’s right. I directed Pitch Perfect 2. And I honestly don’t know what I like more. Being in front of the camera or behind it because I really see things as a director now. Like, I’m noticing that this shot is just a scooch tight. You’re kind of losing the dress. Let me ask our director. Hey Don.
Don: Yes, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Banks: Do me a favor. Pop out a smidge.
Don: You got it.
[The camera zooms out a little bit. You can see Elizabeth Banks’s dress better now.]Elizabeth Banks: Perfect! Great! I might give a few more notes as we go.
Don: Please don’t.
Elizabeth Banks: Oh, no. That’s right. It’s your show. It’s just… ah! I’m so unbelievably excited to be up here right now. So, I’m gonna take this one. Cue music.
[music playing]Lights to half.
[Lights dim a little]Yeah, that’s nice. Microphone.
[Someone hands over a micto Elizabeth Banks]And cue talent.
[singing] First when there’s nothingbut a slow blowing dream
B camera.
[Cut to Elizabeth Banks from B camera angle]That your fears seem to high
deep inside your mind
Give me a close up.
[Cut to Elizabeth Banks from close up shot]All alone I have cried
Too close!
[Close up shot slowly zooms out]silent tears for the price
Better.
In a world made of steel
made of stone
Let’s loose this dress and get funky!
[two helpers come in and start opening Elizabeth Banks’s dress.]Well I feel the music
Cue, snow.
close my eyes, feel the rhythm
Go stars!
[a sparkling star appears on the screen]Round, take a whole of my heart
Up to the sky cam.
[Cut to Elizabeth Banks from the top Ariel-view angle]What a feeling
Cue dancers!
[four white dancers join Elizabeth Banks on the stage]please believe it.
More diverse dancers.
[two black dancers join them]I can have it all
now I’m dancing for my love
take a pressure
Star wipe!
make it happen
More star wipes!
pictures come alive
you can dance right through your love
Cue, the treadmill.
[Elizabeth Banks walks on the treadmill on the stage.]Now, I feel the music
Green screen.
[The screen shows as Elizabeth Banks is walking on the clouds.]close my eyes, I am rhythm
Downtown.
[The screen shows as Elizabeth Banks is walking in a downtown street.]in a flash, it takes whole of my heart
like this big octopus.
What a feeling
please believe it
I’m gonna cross, follow me camera.
[Elizabeth Banks runs to the middle of the stage]I can have it all now
I’m dancing for my love
Count in, we have a big finish.
[Cecily, Bobby, Taran and Sasheer come in and dance]Take your passion
Not Bobby. Lose Bobby.
[Bobby leaves the stage]make it happen
Sasheer’s got a GoPro.
[Cut to shot from Sasheer’s GoPro. Elizabeth Banks is looking at the camera as the camera is moving.]pictures come alive
you can dance right through your love
For the feeling!
[The song ends. Taran, Cecily, Elizabeth Banks and Sasheer do the ending pose. Bobby runs in and does the ending pose too.] [cheers and applause]Okay! I got it out of my system. We’ve got a great show. Disclosure is here. Stick around, we’ll be right back.
