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Patty Jenkins battled with Warner Bros. bosses over her vision for Wonder Woman, because they just wanted a female to direct the blockbuster.
The filmmaker reveals studio chiefs didn’t even want to read her script for the hit film and initially refused to take her suggestions seriously until she made it clear she wasn’t just going to be a symbol of empowerment without any power.
“They wanted to hire me like a beard,” she said on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. “They wanted me to walk around on set as a woman, but it was their story and their vision.
“They didn’t even want to read my script. There was such mistrust of a different way of doing things and a different point of view… When I first joined Wonder Woman, it was like, ‘Uh, yeah, OK, but let’s do it this other way’. But I was like, ‘Women don’t want to see that. Her being harsh and tough and cutting people’s heads off… I’m a Wonder Woman fan, that’s not what we’re looking for!’”
