Director Patty Jenkins advises Gal Gadot in making 'Wonder Woman'

Patty Jenkins has directed only two feature film. 'Monster' is considered one of the best movies of 2003, writes Christopher Campbell for FSR, and it netted Charlize Theron a Best Actress Oscar. The second is 'Wonder Woman'.

Forbes writes on Monday that "Yup, on today, its 95th day of release, the Gal Gadot/Chris Pine superhero adventure movie has cleared $409.1m domestic. That means, inflation notwithstanding, the film is the fifth-biggest superhero movie of all time in North America, behind only 'The Dark Knight Rises' ($448m), 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' ($459m), 'The Dark Knight' ($534m) and 'The Avengers' ($623m).."

'Wonder Woman' has out-grossed all but four male-driven comic book superhero movies. Yet, it is merely the eighth-biggest female-led blockbuster of all time in North America, behind 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' ($425 million), 'Finding Dory' ($486m), 'Beauty and the Beast' ($504m), 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' ($529m), 'Jurassic World' ($652m), 'Titanic' ($658m) and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' ($937m).

Jenkins is interviewed, along with Lucy Davis who plays Etta Candy, in the film, by Laura Brounstein for Cosmopolitan. Front of mind is 'Titanic' director James Cameron who took it upon himself to mansplain why 'Wonder Woman' is not a feminist film. In fact, Cameron argued in an interview for The Guardian that the film represents a setback for women. Jenkins responded on Twitter:

"James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman. Strong women are great…but if women have to always be hard, tough and troubled to be strong and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far, have we."

Jenkins was still basking in compliments from Hillary Clinton. As for Cameron, he did have an additional quote for The Guardian: “Being attracted to strong independent women has the downside that they’re strong independent women – they inherently don’t need you!” he says with a laugh.

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Teddy Wayne interviews Gadot, known today as Gisele in the Fast & Furious franchise, but preparing to become the world’s next Wonder Woman in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’. This role is “just a warm-up for the actress”.

Speaking of this role, Gadot explains: “I didn’t want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who’s waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different. Little did I know that I would land Wonder Woman not long after.”

Land it she did! Gadot will reprise her superhero identity in the “long-gestating” ‘Wonder Woman’ movie, with female director Patty Jenkins at the helm. The film is the first female-centric entry in the superhero genre since 2005’s ‘Elektra’, with Jennifer Garner.

Speaking about motherhood and her daughter Alma, Gadot shares this wisdom:

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better. At the end of the day, I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter. As long as she’s the first priority, which she is and always will be, it’s okay if Mommy goes to work and has a busy period, as long as I balance everything. The good thing about being an actress is that it’s very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off. It’s up to me. It’s not like being a lawyer, for example, going to work in a law firm every day, nine-to-five for years and years. When I choose a role, I always think about whether my daughter can get something out of it when she watches the movie later after she’s grown up. Or even just show her that Mommy’s doing what Mommy loves to do. And therefore, she can do what she loves to do and have a family at the same time. As long as you have your priorities figured out in a healthy way. And it also has a lot to do with my husband, who is really supportive and makes everything so much easier.

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Next stop was Kendall’s brother-in-law Kanye West’s headliner performance at Glastonbury Festival in Somerset — about 140 miles away.

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Outspoken model and actor Cara Delevingne, who also stars in this summer’s teen romance ‘Paper Towns’. metaphorically stuck out her tongue at the comic book industry on the subject of ‘totally sexist’ superhero movies.

Delevingne is one of three girls in the upcoming DC’s ‘Suicide Squad’.

‘Female superheroes are normally naked or in bikinis. No one would be able to fight like that. Wonder Woman, how the hell does she fight? She would be dead in a minute,’ critiques Delevingne.

‘The comments could cause tension at DC, given that Wonder Woman will be a stablemate of Delevingne’s character Enchantress in next year’s Suicide Squad,’ writes The Guardian.

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On a positive note:

“Cara makes everything look modern and right … a kind of young Coco, but free and not bourgeoise,” says Karl Lagerfeld. Burberry’s Christopher Bailey remarks on her “instinctive understanding of how to communicate, engage, and interact with her friends, followers, and fans.” The public loves seeing her goofy selfies on the Web. “When I make faces,” she tells me, “it’s because I don’t know what else to do,” adding that she feels silly taking pictures of herself trying too hard to look perfect. Her tendency to perform cartwheels backstage at shows is to dispel nerves and anxiety. The first time she opened the Burberry show, she says, “I freaked out.”

The Daily Mail reported minutes ago that Cara ‘displays the after-effects of a wild weekend as she jets out of London in low-key look’. Translated, Cara is exhausted — a key focus of the Vogue Plum Stykes interview. The girl sleeps all the time and everywhere, report her supporters and admirers.

“Every shoot I’ve done with her, she’s fallen asleep,” he tells me. “She slept for seven hours on one Mulberry shoot.” Tim has been pondering her Internet fame, too. “I have a theory that it’s to do with the fact that she looks like something from a Disney film. Disney really works well with that generation. She’s the Instagram Bambi.”

Fresh on the heels of Rob Haskell’s controversial Vogue July interview with Cara, the young superstar shared a tribute to her singer girlfriend St. Vincent on social media, posting this picture of a purple flag with a Sex And The City quote embroidered on it. It reads:

“Maybe some women aren’t mean(t) to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.”