12 Oct 2024

Elizabeth Banks: New NZ hospital drama

From Saturday Morning, 11:05 am on 12 October 2024
Elizabeth Banks filming day 28 of A Mistake directed by Christine Jeffs

Elizabeth Banks filming day 28 of A Mistake directed by Christine Jeffs Photo: Nicola Dove

Actor Elizabeth Banks has taken a step away from her usual block busters - The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect, Charlie's Angels, to name just a few - to play the lead role in a New Zealand medical drama.

A Mistake, directed by Kiwi filmmaker Christine Jeffs and based on the novel by Wellington author Carl Shuker, sees Banks playing a talented surgeon, Beth Taylor, whose life unravels after making a fatal mistake on the operating table.

The medical thriller is set in a bureaucratic Auckland hospital and looks at the dangers of human fallibility and the need for black and white answers in a world of nuance.

Actor Elizabeth Banks, director Christine Jeffs, and author of the novel, Carl Shuker discuss the film.