ELIZABETH BANKS - BANKS WAS THE PERFECT CHOICE TO PLAY FOOTBALLER'S WIFE

BANKS WAS THE PERFECT CHOICE TO PLAY FOOTBALLER'S WIFE

Actress ELIZABETH BANKS was the perfect choice to play American footballer's wife in new movie INVINCIBLE because she's a sports nut. The SEABISCUIT star plays legendary Philadelphia Eagles star VINCE PAPALE's wife JANET in the biopic and insists the producers couldn't have picked a better person for the role. She says, "I just knew that world growing up and I knew those types of guys. We made the film in Philadelphia, where I went to college and we shot the football scenes on the field on which I graduated from college. "I really grew up on baseball but I love football... I grew up going to games. I'll still get into a football game. "Also my husband is a football fanatic and writes for Yahoo! Sports. So, unless I want to be a Sunday widow, I got to participate in football in some way. I get into it." Banks reveals she would have been a professional athlete had it not been for an unfortunate break: "The only reason I became an actor is because I broke my leg sliding into third base in a softball game and I needed something else to do after school."