my guest tonight is an actor and
director with a new miniseries on Hulu
called Mrs America
she is also at her home say hello to
Elizabeth
thanks hello Elizabeth hi
I'm alright how are you holding up how
are things there ah yeah you know I'm as
grateful as I can be to have my kids to
focus on and of course worried for
everyone all the time anxiety at like
level I don't know 11 are you hoarding
anything me honestly we did we stocked
up on a few things early I my husband is
the one who really panicked at the top
of this whole thing my husband he has
never really done the shopping for the
family and he went online thinking he
was doing us a grand favor and the only
thing that got delivered to the house
was like an industrial-sized box of
ramen noodles favorite flavor can't
believe this was in stock Jimmy chipotle
chicken which is truly this is a real
experiments room maybe he's thinking
about going back to college and moving
into a dorm I don't know what's going on
there I just loved it that was where his
brain went was thinking exactly that
like what what can we have that we can
subsist on and I thought well we can't
we're gonna be this to our children like
no that's a worst-case scenario type of
meals your children are what what grades
I'm a first grader and seven and nine
they love spicy chicken Chipotle and
you've been helping them with their with
their homeschooling yeah I mean it's
it's sort of what we're all doing now I
do I do want to say thank you to all of
the teachers out there and all of the
parents who are teaching because I have
really come to the realization that
especially third grade math is nearly
impossible to teach a lot of I'm glad
you brought that up because I've got
some questions from a real teacher from
the LAUSD save me some first and 3rd
grade questions okay how many syllables
are in the word rhinoceros rhinoceros
rhinoceros 4 or is correct which of the
following numbers is not a multiple of 7
28 42 57 63-57
that's correct one more this
three-dimensional shape has six square
faces I don't even know what the words
you just said which three-dimensional
shape okay six square faces it's gotta
be a cube if you say swear you pass the
third grade tell us a little bit about
this miniseries you got going on on Hulu
Mrs America FX on Hulu it stars Kate
Blanchet as Phyllis Schlafly
who was a big leader in the conservative
right movement in the 70s she moved
against the women's rights movement we
were trying to pass the e ra and she
brought together some housewives and and
really sort of put together a coalition
that still exists today and the e ra
never came to pass
she would not like already you've
selected tonight would she Elizabeth
selected this charity the Center for
Reproductive Rights is your charity tell
us a bit about that the Center for
Reproductive Rights they they fight all
the court battles to keep abortion safe
and legal in America so abortion is a
constitutionally protected right and
right now I mean I personally think that
the government shouldn't be involved in
deciding how many people are in your
family at any time but especially now
when people are facing such unstable and
anxiety ridden times I think it's
important that everyone have access to
whatever health care they need and the
center fights to keep those clinics open
in states all across America well thank
you Elizabeth it is great to see your
face I appreciate you taking a minute
out of your I'm sure very busy day of
eating ramen yeah
so Elizabeth Banks we'll be right back