Elizabeth Banks Is Starting a Book Club Exclusively for Drinking Wine

“If you’re a female famous person and you don’t have a book club, are you actually famous?” quips Elizabeth Banks, closing the novel in her hands and taking off her glasses. “No! Of course not.” It’s a clip from a promo video introducing her own, not-entirely-traditional venture: The Elizabeth Banks Book Club. But, plot twist, there aren’t actually any books to read in this one—that is, apart from the made-up titles which serve merely as a clever and cheeky wink, a light introduction or preface, if you will, to cut to the chase and get to the wine-drinking portion of the gathering, which is, for Banks, what book clubs are all about. “Wine and community,” she says over a Zoom call. The wine, specifically in terms of Archer Roose. The actor-writer-producer-director joined the affordable luxury and low-intervention wine brand as chief creative officer and co-owner in 2021, and loved the disruptive nature of wine in a can. Read more >>