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Elle Fanning thanks the fans who taught her Elizabeth Banks's Effie

The two Effie Trinkets compare improvised lines, Alexander McQueen corsetry and the note Banks gave her successor: make her your own.

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0:22Banks asks about the online fan campaign that pushed for Fanning to play young Effie.
1:39Banks says she wanted Fanning to make Effie her own, and describes the energy she brought to the role.
3:45Fanning explains how fan compilations on YouTube taught her Effie's accent and mannerisms.
7:23Banks describes the restrictive Alexander McQueen costumes as a way to wear the Capitol's oppression.
10:45Banks compares acting, directing and producing, saying directing uses the most skills; set notes follow at 12:32.
18:06Both name Glenn Close as the most intimidating actor they have worked with.

Elizabeth Banks did not ask Elle Fanning to copy her. "I thought that you should just make her your own, whatever that meant to you," she says, sitting across from the actor who plays a younger Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Fanning still did her homework, and she had help. Fans had campaigned online for her to get the part, then gave her the study material: YouTube compilations of Banks's Effie, which Fanning used to learn the accent and the mannerisms. "Thank you to all the fans again for their YouTube fan compilations that they've made of you," she says, half to Banks and half to the internet.

Banks played the Capitol escort across all four original films, and she looks back at a character who started as a cheerful face of the regime and ended up on the side of the rebellion. Some of Effie's best-known lines, she says, were improvised. The clothes were not decoration either. The restrictive Alexander McQueen costumes dictated how she moved, and Banks gives them a darker reading: "It's a way to wear the oppression of the Capitol."

The second half drifts beyond Panem. Banks, who has also directed, says directing is when "you have to hold the whole idea of the whole thing together for everyone else," and sums up one of the most useful notes an actor can get in four words: "Faster is always correct." She talks about the roles people quote at her most, The 40-Year-Old Virgin among them, and Fanning admits a dream of opening a miniature dollhouse store. At the end both reach for the same name as the most intimidating actor they have worked with: Glenn Close.

The interview passed 40,000 views within its first twelve hours, and the comment section had already outpaced a usual full first day on the channel. Viewers are casting the pair as mother and daughter in some future project, asking for Banks to return in the new film's epilogue, and requesting a Banks and Close conversation next.

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Elle was born for playing the young Effie
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I need them playing mother and daughter next
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Girl, never in a big franchise? You’re a Disney princess i love this
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we love our Effies in this household
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THIS VIDEO'S BEEN UP FOR 2 HOURS AND NO ONE TOLD ME???
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Omgs what a time to be a hunger games fan
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Effie Trinket is such an iconic character, love both of them!
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We need an interview with Elizabeth Banks and Glenn Close now!! It would be so cool to see them talk about how their characters have the same job but go about it so differently!
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