Chris Pine Talks About WONDER WOMAN 1984 and Differences Between It and the First Film
I’m really excited for Wonder Woman 1984, but I’ve got a year to go until it releases, and Warner Bros. is being quiet. We were treated to a pretty awesome poster last week and in a recent episode of Variety’s Actors on Actors, Chris Pine talked a bit about working on both Wonder Woman films. Now, he doesn’t give anything away such as how the heck Steve Trevor is back, but he does provide some interesting insight into the differences between working on the two films.
“What I think defines this series and perhaps the character, and certainly Patty’s interest, is redefining the notion of a hero’s journey as we know it. This is a woman, a superhero, defined by her capacity to love. I’ll say no more, but I hope audiences are moved in unexpected ways because they’re expecting something…[he trails off]…I’ll probably get a phone call from Warner Bros. for even saying this…What I’ve found this time [in Wonder Woman 1984], the tables had turned on me as a man in terms of how I interacted and played on screen. I loved my lady. I loved, as the character, my woman. My partner. So that came to define this man. What a wonderful thing as a character to be in love, as a man on screen in a big film.
It was interesting. My ego comes out, and I told Patty all the time, ‘I want the big f*cking fight. Let me climb something! I want to destroy!’ And she’s like, ‘No. Not about you.’ And I’m like, ‘God damn it.’ She said, ‘Not about you’ more times making this film. (laughs)”
You can find the whole episode below with this question happening around the 24:16 mark. Do you think Steve survived somehow, was brought back from the dead, is a Force ghost, or do you have your own idea as to how he is in the film wearing a fanny pack?
Wonder Woman 1984 will release on June 4, 2020.