Elizabeth Banks‘ 2019 remake of Charlie’s Angels may have revamped the famous film franchise, but Banks revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that the media fostered a “gendered agenda” behind the iteration, which ultimately influenced how it was promoted.

According to Variety, Banks told The New York Times last September that she wished the film “had not been presented as just for girls,” which she now has blamed the media for in her Rolling Stone interview.

She explained to the outlet that the media had deemed it as “some feminist manifesto.”

“People kept saying, ‘You’re the first female director of ‘Charlie’s Angels!'” she shared. “And I was like, ‘They’ve only done a TV show and McG’s movies … what are you talking about? There’s not this long legacy.’”

She added that her desire to direct the film didn’t arise from a “gendered agenda” of her own, but rather because she “just loved the franchise.”

“That [agenda] was very much laid on top of the work, and it was a little bit of a bummer,” she revealed. “It felt like it pigeonholed me and the audience for the movie.”

However, Banks noted that the “real bummer” was feeling like she lost “control of the [film’s] narrative.”

“You realize how the media can frame something regardless of how you’ve framed it,” she detailed. “I happen to be a woman who directed a Charlie’s Angels movie that happened to star three incredible women,” referring to Naomi Scott, Kristen Stewart, and Ella Balinska.

She even highlighted how she had to ask for the film to be promoted to men in addition to women, as she remembered being told that Charlie’s Angels would have a partnership with Drybar, a “hair-blowing thing.”

“And I was like, ‘Alright… but could we have an ad during the baseball playoffs?'” she asked

She found it “interesting to see how the industry sees things that star women,” and that it proved to be a “real lesson” for her.

Despite the film being a box office flop, which she told Variety that she “took full responsibility for,” she has recently garnered praise for her comedy horror film Cocaine Bear. She told Decider that she was “thrilled” about its box office success and would feel just as thrilled if she was able to direct a sequel.

“I made a movie that I wanted to see with people that I love making things with, and I just love how it turned out,” she said. “And if I got to make something like that again, I’d be thrilled.”

Banks most recently starred as Robbie in The Beanie Bubble, which is now streaming on Apple TV+.