Jessica Biel & Elizabeth Banks Take A Friendship Test

Glamour

How well do "The Better Sister" stars Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Bank know each other? Watch as they visit Glamour to answer questions about each other, give each other compliments, look back at memories on set, and more.

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00:00What if we're not friends?

00:01Yeah, what if this is just an act?

00:03I think you guys made a lot of assumptions.

00:05Just saying.

00:11We've met a couple times long ago.

00:14But we didn't, like, know each other.

00:17We didn't know each other.

00:18Yeah, we didn't hang out.

00:19No, no. No, we didn't.

00:20So we became friends making this show, I think.

00:23Yeah, and we really met when we had lunch.

00:27And we just talked about our kids and being moms.

00:29Yeah.

00:30And basically she gave me all the advice about what I should do

00:33because my boys are just a little younger than her boys.

00:35Yes.

00:36I have always known her to be kind, generous, talented, beautiful.

00:42And she lives up to all of those things.

00:45Same.

00:46I mean, it was easy when the first day we really hung out and talked.

00:51Yeah.

00:52It felt like sisters immediately.

00:54Yeah, it was just, like, mutually beneficial, having fun.

00:57And I've just been a fan forever.

01:05Compliments.

01:06Okay.

01:07I need more cards.

01:08I like that you start with the positives.

01:10Okay.

01:11And yet, it's the next, like, eh.

01:12And now give it to her straight.

01:13Exactly.

01:14What you really hate.

01:15Tell her what she can improve on.

01:16About each other.

01:17My first one that I wrote down was generous.

01:20I was going to say that about you.

01:22But generous in so many ways, right?

01:25Not, like, as a creative partner, as a mom friend, as a woman friend, as just someone

01:33who gives of time and energy and all the laughs.

01:38You're a great gift giver, which is not on my card.

01:42That is one of my love languages.

01:43I love doing that.

01:44You can tell.

01:45You're a very good gift giver.

01:46Thanks.

01:47Ready for me?

01:48Ready, ready.

01:49Okay.

01:50You are a great mom.

01:51Aww.

01:52I love hearing that I'm a great mom.

01:55And I love telling great moms that they're great moms.

01:57Moms need to hear that they're great.

01:58That's true.

01:59You're a great mom.

02:00Well, thank you.

02:01I'm not with my kids right now, so that feels good to hear.

02:05The other one I had was funny slash fun.

02:08But I know everyone probably says that about you.

02:10But it's so unbelievably true.

02:13There's such a good, positive, fun energy, vibes.

02:17I feel like I've learned so much about how to be funnier in my life and on screen,

02:23and not take things so seriously, and have a great sense of humor about things.

02:26I can be a bit serious at times.

02:28I like that kind of, ugh.

02:30Aliveness.

02:31Oh my god, what's going to happen kind of feeling.

02:33And working with Elizabeth is like that.

02:35It's like a live wire going around.

02:36You're like, who knows what's going to happen?

02:38And that brings a really cool energy.

02:41Your abs and your ass make me jealous.

02:48Stop.

02:49Go on.

02:51And you're strong.

02:52Like, she can lift shit.

02:54You could lift me.

02:55I will lift you.

02:57Hello.

02:58Hello.

02:59It's not really even a challenge, because she's like, yeah, I can.

03:08So three, two, one.

03:09Say it.

03:10Okay.

03:11The sport that maybe we had in common while we were shooting.

03:14Uh-huh.

03:15Okay.

03:16Ready?

03:17Three, two, one.

03:18Paddle.

03:19Oh!

03:20Paddle.

03:21I know.

03:22I fucked up.

03:23But that's what you were thinking, right?

03:24Yes.

03:25Yes.

03:26Okay.

03:27We were saying that padel tennis.

03:28Padel tennis.

03:29Padel is like a...

03:30It's kind of like a racquetball squash combo.

03:32Plexiglass box.

03:33In like a plexiglass box that you play in.

03:37Can you envision that?

03:38Absolutely.

03:39We're very competitive.

03:41Her more than most.

03:42That is not true.

03:43You and your husband are way more competitive than us.

03:45What?

03:46You and your husband are like, your husband literally runs competitions.

03:49You and my husband.

03:50You and my husband.

03:51That's really what it is.

03:52That's true.

03:53What you need at the beach.

03:54Hold on.

03:55Let me mind meld her for a second.

03:56Okay.

03:57And see if I can know.

03:58Need at the beach.

04:04Okay.

04:05I think I have it.

04:06Well, we'll see.

04:07Okay.

04:08Ready?

04:09You gonna give us a three, two, one?

04:10Three, two, one.

04:11Umbrella.

04:12White wine spritzer.

04:16That's so true.

04:18She knows me better than I know myself.

04:23You want to pick first?

04:26Sure.

04:27All right.

04:28Going green.

04:29What was the most difficult day you had together on set?

04:33The day that we could not get through.

04:35Because we could not stop laughing.

04:38Because of Johnny May.

04:41Okay.

04:42There's a courtroom scene.

04:43Courtsy.

04:44You're right.

04:45You're right.

04:46And we, it's just the two of us.

04:47And we're just on camera all day, but we don't have any dialogue.

04:50So we just have to sit there all day.

04:52Yeah.

04:53Eight hours, ten hours.

04:54Yeah.

04:55Yeah.

04:56And there were a lot of characters in the room.

04:59And we really laughed.

05:01And we could not stop laughing.

05:03We were having giggle fits.

05:05And very...

05:06Unprofessional.

05:07Very unprofessional.

05:08We should have probably been fired.

05:09Yeah.

05:10So it was like a hard day because we couldn't stop laughing.

05:12But a great day.

05:13But a fun day.

05:14Because we were having a lot of fun.

05:15Those courtroom days.

05:16For many reasons.

05:18For that particular day.

05:20For other...

05:21I mean, we just sat in a courtroom for a long time.

05:23I'm laughing thinking about it.

05:24Taking turns with all the cast.

05:26Going up to give all these big, important, very emotionally...

05:30Yes.

05:31Yes.

05:32Taxing speeches.

05:33And sometimes it's like laughing at a funeral.

05:36Yeah.

05:37Like you just can't stop.

05:38And the camera's right here.

05:39And...

05:40We were.

05:41We were.

05:42Very unprofessional.

05:43Very inappropriate.

05:44We needed that release that day, I think.

05:46Okay.

05:47What's something you learned from your castmate?

05:50How to get my kids to go to camp.

05:52Okay, great.

05:53Successfully.

05:54Because he's going back again for four weeks this year.

05:56Yes, girl!

05:57You're getting four weeks!

05:58Who is more likely to leave the other one...

06:02Unread.

06:03What?

06:04What does that even mean?

06:05It means like if I text you and you don't text back.

06:07First of all, we're very good texters.

06:09Why do I not understand that?

06:10Literally, I don't understand that.

06:11That's what the young kids say.

06:13This is embarrassing.

06:14I have teenagers, so I know what this means.

06:16When I have questions about my things...

06:17I'm a great teacher.

06:18I just come here.

06:20When I can't read things and understand them anymore, I just come here.

06:24Um...

06:25We don't do that to each other.

06:27No, right away we answer.

06:28Yeah, we're good at texting.

06:30I also still leave people voicemails and people are mad about it.

06:33I do the audio thing.

06:35Sarah Paulson...

06:36I love an audio.

06:37Will never do a text.

06:38She only audio voices now, so I've started doing that now too.

06:41I really like that.

06:42I love hearing people's voices.

06:43Me too.

06:44I don't feel like I'm able to actually convey a tone in the text,

06:49and so I've gone back to leaving voice messages.

06:53What is your favorite movie or TV show that your castmates starred in before this series?

07:00Oh.

07:01I mean, I really loved the wig and glasses and candy.

07:06I mean, I thought you looked unreal.

07:10That's a special one.

07:11It was a commitment.

07:12It sure was.

07:13Right?

07:14It was.

07:15I thought it was incredible.

07:17That was fun.

07:18I truly loved it.

07:19I loved wearing that crazy wig.

07:20Yeah, you could tell.

07:21You were, like, leaned in.

07:23Really, really leaned in.

07:24Not sure if it was going to work.

07:25I could feel the vibe of, like, is this working?

07:30Which is part of it, because she was nutso.

07:33She was totally nuts.

07:34You know what?

07:35That just brought me directly to the hair, makeup, wardrobe, and performance in Hunger Games.

07:41Yeah, that featuring.

07:42Which was just, like, BAM!

07:44I mean, fun and wild and cool.

07:47She's a good one.

07:48I mean, I love everything you do, but that's the first thing that popped into my mind, and I love that series.

07:57We did it.

07:58We're going to have a great day.

08:00Yeah.

08:01We like to hang out together.

08:02Yeah.

08:03It's going to be hard for us to answer other people's questions when we just want to be talking to each other about our lives.

08:08That's true.

08:09Glamour, thanks for testing our friendship.

08:11See you next time.

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