Elizabeth Banks Funding Boston NWSL Team After Turning Down Angel City Investment [Video]

Elizabeth Banks wants to leave a legacy.

As Banks, 50, and the Boston Unity Soccer Partners announce their National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team, BOS Nation, the Charlie’s Angels actress exclusively tells PEOPLE why she’s investing in the team.

“Actually, I was invited back in the day to be an investor in Angel City here in Los Angeles,” Banks says, referring to the team co-founded by Natalie Portman that inspired HBO’s 2023 docuseries. Angel City.

Banks says she “didn’t feel authentically connected to” the Los Angeles team. “I mean, I love LA and I live here, but it’s not my home.”

The Hunger Games actress says she felt like Angel City “had a lot of amazing women, female founders and women investors involved,” ultimately declining the offer to invest in Portman’s club, but the invitation “planted the seed that this was possible,” says Banks.

“I thought, gosh, it would be really interesting to do something down the …