this. Thank you so much for having me how are you I’m doing
well. I’ve seen the movie so I’m doing very well, it’s
amazing the action is incredible and most of all it’s
here I feel like we’ve been waiting for this movie built up
the anticipation so much what’s it like to finally have it here
after all these starts and restarts.
>> It feels really really good because you know we shot the
movie back in 2018. And the movie was supposed to come out
a long time ago. So it feels like a huge relief to be able
to finally share it with everyone but at the same time
it’s like it’s a conundrum it’s because everything is virtual
and like you don’t get to feel you know the red carpets and
all of that so I’m like I’m delayed, I mean the big guy
delay. But it’s great I’m I’m watch it.
>> And what do you think about the rollout on HBO Max and some
limited theaters it becoming basically a Christmas movie
honestly at home that people like my kids can sit and watch
and that is that kind of a cool element, even if the you didn’t
intend it to be that way.
>> It is it is very much so now if someone would have told me a
year ago that that’s what was going to happen, I would flip
out and be like no way but there’s something about the
relevant that we could ever anticipated, you know back then
when we shot it
and the idea of having families being able watched a movie
together on the Christmas Day is it, you know it just warms
my heart.
>> So I’m very very happy about it the last time we spoke was
about 3 years ago we are on that back and wonder woman
mania already exploded and done everything that it did and I
asked you about potentially another movie, another woman
wonder woman Bible in every chapter real something else
about her so where would you say wonder woman is in this
chapter truth.
>> Truth, the first one was all about love and it’s still there
in the movie that we just shot. But now the focus was when it
was more about the truth.
>> Yeah, I was interested to hear you say the movie is more
relevant than ever because it did feel that way was I reading
too much into it as I listened to some of the lines and and
listen to the themes of it that the truth is something that we
need to hear more about right now.
>> Yeah, and again when Patty and I started to talk about
this story for the next one. It was when we shot when we
were still in the midst of shooting the first movie.
But we had this urge to explore more of the character and just
too. You know we just fantasize what we want to do with the
character and with this story and we already felt like the
world in us we’re going to a darker place
and the power of truth is something that is super
relevant for wonder woman as a character. But also for us as a
society in just now it’s like it.
It’s it’s a crazy timing.
>> It is and that and the message is right there
literally in the opening scene of the movie when we have the
young Dan at the competition, I think she’s 12 years old or
maybe younger. And that scene yet and that theme of truth and
lies comes out right away and I know you’ve said that that
scene to watch was emotional for you right right off the
beginning of the movie why did it hit you so hard.
>> Because I’ve never seen that before it was all of this and I
I was involved in every aspect of the movie
and they knew what we were doing and I was there when we
shot it so it’s it wasn’t a surprise for me but
see everything watch everything come together and experience
this
potential of this young girl
and see it on the big screen. All of the sudden I I I got so
emotional because it wasn’t need the 35 year-old girl,
it woman it was need the 12 year-old girl watching another
12 year-old girl doing these incredible things and then I
remember telling your lawn, my husband oh my God of.
>> I’ve never seen anything like this before.
>> You know it was so raw and it was a first for me so I
think it’s important to have it out there in the world to lay
the dream for girls and boys to see what a potential one could
have and yeah, it’s special he was a special moment for me.
>> Part of the real fun of the movie to is the setting the
1980’s which is so rich with music and fashion and
everything else how did you and Patty arrive on 1984 when
you’re first conceiving of it those those years ago.
>> A bunch of reason first of all we shot the first one in
1917, it was gray and gloomy and it was for his first World
and to be able to shut the next chapter in her life in that one
War
of the most color fall, poppy you know alive of a decade was
it was something that we were looking forward to to bring
because it was almost like another character in the movie
and also it felt like. I resemble time to nowadays
because that it was all about axis and more and
and you know the world was
Heights, so that was something that was working very well with
the story as well.
>> You said that this was maybe the hardest movie you’ve ever
done.
>> Not maybe for sure wasn’t sure for sure, I mean I.
>> 5 I think most people assume when they see a movie like
this, it’s green screen and they’re not really doing this
dance everything else be you and your stunt double.
We’re doing just about everything right.
>> Yeah, yeah, there was a lot of heavy lifting when Petty
wanted to have this amount of CGI in the movie which was
great and I love it, but I didn’t really realize what it’s
going to mean for me. So it was much more laborious but I got
to say that as much as it was exhausting and all of that it
was worth it because you see it. It’s like watching a movie
that was shot on film versus watching a movie that was shot
digitally. There’s just another atmosphere that it as you see
it in this speed in the way in our facial expressions and and
it was worth it, but it was challenging.
>> Were there. Moments where Patty said gallon. Here’s what
we’re doing today. And you said.
>> Really are you sure I’m going to do that you kidding me
we made jokes about it all because it became so absurd.
>> I wore a harness and then I was wired from all different
angles and then I was pulled up into the air and then they push
me down to the water and then and they pulled me back up
again and then I had to say my line. So Petty literally
started to tease me and she was like okay, no good on one food
and with one eye. And do you know it when it was extreme.
>> And you’re going to say no to your friend Pat you just go
out and do it right.
>> And the FEC or factor know, but you know that’s the nice
thing because it always starts from the head when you have a
director and filmmaker that is so invested and is working 24 7
and is dreaming about the movie when they finally get some
sleet. Then you’ve got to come and bring everything you know
it’s not about us. It’s about the movie we had to do it.
>> Well the hard parts of that interview about this film is
that you just don’t want to give away very much and almost
any question I ask you might give away too much, but we do
know that Steve Trevor is in the movie because he’s in the
trailer, so that we can say safely which will lead many of
fans of the first movie to wonder how he’s in the next
movie. Can you shed any light on that you’re just going to
see it to figure it out.
>> Now I can get out of the way then why did the movie OK fair
enough dramatic pause I wasn’t going to get that got it.
>> Your girls, you’re obviously pregnant, we talked about this
last sent to a new shot, the first wonder woman movie talked
about using the shield sometimes to cover your belly.
And now you have 2 beautiful girls to are aware that their
mom is wonder woman have they seen the movie and if so what
do they think.
>> Us on the first movie and we have 2 girls, my eyes, 3
anomalies 9 on the watch the first movie only she’s very
much looking forward to see the next one. I didn’t watch
anything just yesterday I showed her trailer and she was
like she was looking at the computer and then she was
looking back, I mean just said you could fly.
>> You can fly now good and explain a 3 year-old girl and
bad night for e in the movie there was a 100 fewer big.
So yeah Maya is still too young to watch them. What you owe.
>> And are they aware of your sort of role as wonder woman
that people know you and recognizes that and look up to
you is that you kind of kept them insulated from all that.
>> No it’s it’s kind of impossible to keep them.
You know
in the bubble from that they’re aware and they they appreciated
as much as one could when you’re kid.
But at the end of the day, they’re my daughters number ema
you know it’s like
it’s not about that they’re proud and it makes them happy
to say that you know, but nothing more than that.
>> So much has changed in your life obviously since that first
movie because of that first movie in the success, but it
was more than box office. It was representation and
you’re being a role model having that strong woman
central character. How would you say your life has been
changed by wonder woman.
>> It changed a lot. I think mostly by the opportunities
that I get the offers that against for roles and the fact
that I’m a household name in all of that
the basic things happened they didn’t change.
I think because I’m so grounded in a mother and a wife and you
know, and even when they work the glory and the fame is just
like.
It is just a side effect I’m not focused on that at all so
I’m just like focus on my work and in about making what I love
to do. But it for sure changed for for its its amazing.
I’m still pinching my team from times.
>> Have you felt your own sway in Hollywood change a little
bit in terms of you mentioned the roles you get that pay
equity and all the things that come with being a star, you
view yourself as having changed at a little bit over the last 3
>> I don’t know if I can take the credit for someone who’d
years.
change that because it it’s not just me, but I can speak about
the experience that I’m going through that I think that I
definitely fight for it.
I think that it’s all about once you understand your value
then it’s different, you know, so I tried to fight for it in
my own way by fighting for what I believe I should get you know
it’s like I believe in equality and equal pay and all of that
so I definitely fight for that.
>> Do you still feel like you have to fight for most people
would be like come on. She’s wonder woman. She gets what she
wants me to use I still feel like I have to fight for it so
it’s a battle every time.
>> Yeah, but it’s a healthy back at all.
And I’m grateful that I can fight it, you know what I mean
I’m grateful that I can pull my grounds and you know if if it’s
not going to work it’s not going to work and that’s OK too
but I think that if we can just talk the talk we have to walk
the walk as well.
And that’s something that I try to do.
>> One of the neat things about this movie to is your
relationship with Kristen wiig on screen and off you just
we’re seeing an ear worm of the song from the music video will
be stuck with me for. Thank you very much for that. It’s did
you know Kristen before the movie because the chemistry on
screen is is palpable it’s real.
>> Very very briefly, Patty, and I both are big fans of
hers.
And we met you know, brief mean awards events and stuff like
that and we’re both like I got the sense here, let’s go say hi
but we had an immediate connection when we when we just
first met and really started to talk about the characters and
the script and life and we’ll move our family’s London for 8
months or year, whatever. It just you got to make the
best out of it. And you can only make the best out of it
when you have good partners around you and she is an
amazing partner in an amazing friend and a great generous
scene partner so she made this whole experience super special
for me.
>> Again without giving away too much people may be
surprised pleasantly surprise in the way they see Kristen all
leave it at that. So what what made her the right person for
this part for you and Patty.
>> All the characters that she portray are very complex even
the you know the funny ones from SNL skits
she’s just a very intelligent and emotional
performer, you know she can she has the whole range and for
Barbara we knew we got to have someone that can go from in
secure shy, quirky to like the most vicious billion and she
totally naming nailed it.
>> Isn’t it cool going to be in a position just the way you’re
talking about this movie is you as a producer, your friend Pat
is the director you’ve got to make all these decisions.
I mean that’s real power in Hollywood when you say.
>> It’s that I couldn’t be more grateful.
I got to say that even in the first movie Patty was always
empowering me I was always part of the process I was I was
involved in.
In many many things so wearing the heads of the preserve this
time around was just more empowering and more educating
and it was an amazing experience I mean getting to
work with
people like Chuck rovan who’s like the rubble to desist in
Hollywood that and so many
amazing movie this is it’s it’s great because a lot of yeah.
>> Do you. I don’t want to push it too far along with still
miss but do you see another chapter.
>> For Diana as we look ahead of you and Pat we always be
another chapter we always talk about it, I would love to to
work with you know, Jack and Patty and our amazing cast
again.
And crew but you know now that the world had changed so much
to knows what’s going to happen.
I would love for to have another chapter 4 for wonder
woman but time will tell.
>> Do you feel like the movie business is changing maybe in
voluntarily because of this pandemic in other words you
might have your movies go straight to HBO Max or straight
to netflix or whatever the outlet is is that sort of the
New world that we’re looking at.
>> I think the pandemic definitely accelerated where
the streamers were having anyway but I think with movie
like ours. We shot the movie on film for I’m next
Hans Zimmer composing tires scorer of the movie. This movie
was meant to be seen on the biggest biggest screen.
Possible so I think that just like with music concerts.
That’s you know we can hear all the music on Apple and spotify
and all of that but we still going to go to a good concerts.
I think that’s a big believer in theaters and I do think that
the theaters will be back once were over this crazy pandemic
so I have I do think that will go back to the Cinemas again.
>> Oh God I want to know I made it all the way through this
interview without singing your song with Kristen way, I’m very
proud of myself.
>> You want to do it now that it’s in your head right,
it’s a I can’t get out.
>> The rest.
>> Thank them and got thank you very much congratulations great
to see you again the movie is fantastic. It okay, thanks so