{"id":483,"date":"2026-04-23T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/04\/23\/elizabeth-banks-reveals-she-ate-a-6-foot-tall-chocolate-bar-for-new-series\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:47:27","slug":"elizabeth-banks-reveals-she-ate-a-6-foot-tall-chocolate-bar-for-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/04\/23\/elizabeth-banks-reveals-she-ate-a-6-foot-tall-chocolate-bar-for-new-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks Reveals She Ate a 6-Foot-Tall Chocolate Bar for New Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;The Miniature Wife,&#8217; the actress she plays the wife of a scientist (Matthew Macfadyen) who accidentally shrinks her character to six inches tall<\/p>\n\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Banks stars in Peacock&#8217;s <em>The Miniature Wife <\/em>as a woman shrunk to six inches tall by her scientist husband<\/li>\n<li>The show features oversized props like a 30-foot toilet plunger and a six-foot edible Hershey bar<\/li>\n<li>Banks says the series uses humor to explore relatable feelings of being diminished in relationships or professional life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/elizabeth-banks\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Elizabeth Banks<\/a>\u2019 role in <em>The Miniature Wife<\/em> involved working with giant props.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to <em>The Kelly Clarkson Show,<\/em> the actress, 52, opened up about filming the Peacock series, in which she plays the wife of a scientist (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/matthew-macfadyen-and-keeley-hawes-celebrate-21-years-of-marriage-11826477\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Matthew Macfadyen<\/a>) who accidentally shrinks her character to six inches tall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would watch a scene with him and he would have a prop, like he would have a coffee mug or at one point, a toilet plunger. And then I would walk into a room, and there would be a two-and-a-half story toilet plunger, exact replica, like 30 feet tall that now I&#8217;m gonna interact with,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>The actress, who filmed the scenes against a green screen, added that the props department was \u201camazing like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/BeVWs7PeFnpRWxHx9uhUgfsmfa4=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/elizabeth-banks-042326-e96d0693632a46c0933c12dc910491b6.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Elizabeth Banks\/Instagram\" title=\"Elizabeth Banks with giant chocolate bar\" \/><figcaption><i>Credit: Elizabeth Banks\/Instagram<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, they even created oversized versions of foods featured on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also made me a six-foot tall Hershey bar that was actually edible that I could nibble on for like a week,\u201d Banks said. \u201cAnd I barely made a dent in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made a popcorn kernel that was like this big,\u201d she added. \u201dOne kernel of popcorn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was edible,\u201d she noted as the popcorn was shown onscreen. \u201cI ate that. It was made out of sugar. And doesn&#8217;t it look amazing?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/sJ2_yqdQ4gFbRX90dYN1-z4SADg=\/fit-in\/640x480\/elizabeth-banks-miniature-wife-042326-1c38f20edca74d1a9674270f14536bcb.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Banks in 'The Miniature Wife'Credit: Peacock\" title=\"THE MINIATURE WIFE -- Episode 102 -- Pictured: Elizabeth Banks as Lindy\" \/><figcaption><i>Elizabeth Banks in &#8216;The Miniature Wife&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Peacock<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the segment, Banks also reflected on what appealed to her about the series, which premiered on April 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a very funny show,\u201d she said. \u201cBut what I really was drawn to was we get to sort of talk about a big feeling, which is feeling diminished by a partner. Or, you know, in your professional life, your romantic life, I think we all have that relatable experience of being made to feel small every once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>And in this case, it&#8217;s literal,\u201d Banks continued. \u201cAnd physical. And we get to sort of look at that from an absurdist lens, but talk about some, you know, really big issue that I think people understand.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;The Miniature Wife,&#8217; the actress she plays the wife of a scientist (Matthew Macfadyen) who accidentally shrinks her character to six inches tall NEED TO KNOW Elizabeth Banks stars in Peacock&#8217;s The Miniature Wife as a woman shrunk to six inches tall by her scientist husband The show features oversized props like a 30-foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}