Wonder Woman 1984 hits select theaters and homes nationwide on Christmas Day after a long journey to viewers.
Before its release, Shadow and Act caught up with director Patty Jenkins and stars Chris Pine and Kristen Wiig about the film.
“I was shocked like most of the world,” said Wiig of her casting as the villain Cheetah. “I don’t know if I would be on the radar of like, OK, we need to cast a villain that is Wonder Woman’s nemesis. Patty had a vision and I’m so grateful and lucky. I love superhero movies and it was one of those things where like when I watched those movies, I’m like, ‘Oh, I wish I could.’ And when I got the call to even talk to Patty about it, I was like over the moon. So I’m, I’m still like pinching myself and really excited.”
On setting the film in the ’80s, Jenkins said, “I knew that if we were going to do a second film, I wanted it to be absolutely different and its own thing. I wanted to make sure that we were exploring fresh territory. And so taking Diana from the trenches in 1917 and war to the height of opulence and excess and carefree attitudes and the evil that came from that and the villains that came out of that world, that was very delightful to me. Also, I grew up in that period of time watching Linda Carter’s wonderful show. And so that feels like her rightful home to me. So both of those things just made it feel right.”
On his return, Pine said, “Patty, when we were filming the first one toward the end of it, she’d come up with an idea about the second one and then she started thinking about how I might be able to come back. And I think she pretty much beat out the whole film somewhere toward the end of shooting or maybe right after we shot the first one. So, I knew that it would potentially happen and I was excited about it.’
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Wonder Woman 1984, led by Gal Gadot and also starring Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Natasha Rothwell and Ravi Patel, is streaming Christmas Day.
