“I don’t know who drew on in order for what she showed us that she could do, but whatever it was, it really worked because you would believe that she was extremely formidable and waiting. “The inspiration of Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner was a look that we were trying to give her,” says Roven. When Barbara transitions into Cheetah, that competence takes on a different form… Diana doesn’t have to carry her, if you will.” “She’s also incredibly smart and incredibly good at her job too, which is helpful. “It’s so funny because there are things about that Diana admires,” says producer Charles Roven. Obropta describes Barbara as we first meet her: an “awkward, shy, funny, sweet, brilliant gemologist.”īarbara’s introduction as Diana’s friend will no doubt make the presumably inevitable Cheetah/Wonder Woman showdown that much harder for Diana, who has a compassionate heart and who we know has isolated herself emotionally in many ways since losing Steve and the friends she made in 1918. It can all be yours, and he is pervasive and persuasive, and so people start to buy it… people like Barbara.” “He hits the public with these infomercials, and he sells this idea that you can have it all, which was a big mantra of the decade, right? You can have fame and wealth and power. “ pounds the public with infomercials, which were so hot and happening in the ’80s, right?” says producer Anna Obropta. Presumably, he will use those powers to give people what they want, for better and worse, including Barbara. In the trailer, we see Lord holding a gemstone that presumably grants him some kind of power. Wonder Woman 1984‘s Maxwell Lord, played by The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal, is a sleazy self-help tycoon, preying on people’s desire for wealth, power, and fame in destructive ways. In the comics, the Barbara Minerva incarnation of Cheetah is granted supernatural abilities (including increased strength, speed, durability and senses, as well as razor-sharp claws) by plant god Urzkartaga, but, in Wonder Woman 1984, the transformation appears to have something to do with Maxwell Lord. And I find it so interesting and so appealing, and I actually care about them.” But they just didn’t make the right choice at the right time. Just like you, and you, and me … We can see ourselves in them. “I’m so tired of the obvious villain- the German soldier that you know from the get-go, okay he’s the bad guy - they’re like real people. When I first read the script, I told Patty, ‘Wow, I like them as much as I like Diana and Steve.’ And this goes to our wonderful writers and Geoff and Patty.”įor Gadot, it’s a nice change of pace from some of the more overt villains of the superhero movie genre. “And that’s what I love about their characters so much. “They’re not the obvious villains,” says Gadot. You just want to hug her.”īarbara is one of two villains in the film-the other is Pedro Pascal’s Maxwell Lord-though Gadot says their characterizations are more nuanced than the traditional hero-villain divide. “You just love her because, when she’s not Cheetah, she’s Barbara Minerva: she’s so nerdy and she’s full of heart and she’s insecure and you love her. “Kristen’s Barbara is so fierce and sexy and funny,” Gadot told Den of Geek and other reporters on the Wonder Woman 1984 set two years ago. Barbara Minerva, aka Cheetah, will be played by Kristen Wiig. The supervillain originally appeared in a 1943 edition of the Wonder Woman comic, but she is getting a modern update in this fall’s Wonder Woman 1984, which will see Gal Gadot reprise her role of Amazonian hero Diana Prince. In the comics, Cheetah has long been a nemesis of Wonder Woman.
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