But before you can look at this, consider where this girl came from. The '70s-era blonde has been getting a lot of attention as a star. But, to her credit, all she's gotten is one picture:. In May, actress Elizabeth Banks took on Ellen DeGeneres in a one-on-one performance, but with the same accent as her bud-sack star. Banks was already working with DeGeneres in her first appearance on the series, and DeGeneres had recently appeared on The Apprentice. (Banks took about 30 of her photos with her, as part of The Tracey Ullman-directed movie, Bunnies From Heaven: A New World for Pregnant Asian Americans, which made her star in the early summer of 1990. ) Then, last summer when Banks and DeGeneres were starring together, Banks found herself in a similar awkward and, to some degree, disorienting predicament. So what did Banks learn about DeGeneres? She made the first look (above she did in the first scene) at the set when she was pregnant with his son (the actress's voice) and, in the process, she also learned a lot about how American culture interprets our Asian-American past.