Elizabeth Banks Says There Are 'Deep Background Discussions' About aCocaine BearSequel (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Elizabeth Banks.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Elizabeth Bankssays it’s possible more intoxicated animals are coming to the big screen.

Speaking to PEOPLE ahead of the release of her latest filmSkincare, the actor-director, 50, said conversations are underway for a potential sequel to her 2023 movieCocaine Bear.

“I know there are deep background discussions about what something could be in that realm,” says Banks, who directed the horror-comedy. “I am not involved, currently, in a plan to bring more cocaine-animal movies to the screen, but I am open to it, of course.”

The film follows the bear’s gruesome, drugged rampage, including the hikers, paramedics and delinquent children who cross its path.

Elizabeth Banks and Cocaine Bear at Oscars.Kevin Winter/Getty

“I love those characters and I made sure that just a couple stayed alive so that if we wanted to follow them somewhere, we could,” Banks says. “We’ll see what happens.”

Earlier this summer, as news broke of a group of marine biologists that foundhigh levels of cocainein a group of Brazilian sharpnose sharks on the coast near Rio de Janeiro, some fans wondered if the shocking story could be the basis for a spin-off film.

Though Banks says she isn’t actively working on any such project, she acknowledges that she has been seeing “all of the cocaine shark memes going around.”

“I think it would have to be its own storyline,” Banks says of a theoreticalCocaine Sharkmovie.

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This isn’t the first time the words “cocaine shark” have trended — or Banks has answered questions about a shark-based spin-off.

“Jawswith cocaine, I don’t see how that loses,” she added.

Skincare, which stars Banks,Lewis Pullman,Michaela Jaé RodriguezandNathan Fillion, is in theaters Aug. 16.

source: people.com