Parental duty calls
Actress-filmmaker Elizabeth Banks says she is leaving 'Pitch Perfect 3' as director for her responsibilities towards her kids. The mother of two announced that she will no longer serve as director of the upcoming film, though she will stay on as a producer.
"It was all timing. We feel obligated to put out the best movie. We want to give the audience what it wants but not making it repetitive. We have been in development and it took longer than we thought, and I needed to shoot another movie in the summer. If we pushed into fall it bumped up against my parental responsibilities, which made me feel uncomfortable," she said.
Banks made her directorial debut with 'Pitch Perfect 2' last year and signed on later to reprise her role behind the camera for the next instalment featuring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow.
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