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Elizabeth Banks Has the Balls to Play the First Lady and a Porn Novice

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By Radheyan Simonpillai

NOW Magazine | November 3, 2008

The self-professed "guy's girl" swears like a trucker and can talk about her vagina.

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Tags: Oliver Stone, W., Kevin Smith, Laura Bush, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Elizabeth Banks

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