During a conversation with Wonder Woman 1984 co-star Robin Wright for Variety’s Actors on Actors, Chris Pine discussed how working with director Patty Jenkins on the DC sequel compared to his experience on the first film.
While Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor nobly sacrificed himself to save countless lives in the first Wonder Woman film, the US pilot will return under unknown circumstances for the highly-anticipated sequel. Also returning for the second Wonder Woman film is Robin Wright, who reprises her role as Antiope despite the character having met her untimely demise as well.
While the subject of how both characters return was not raised by Chris Pine or Robin Wright during their conversation, the latter did ask the former how his experience working with Patty Jenkins on Wonder Woman 1984 compared to the first film. In response, Chris Pine explained why he felt the “tables had turned” on him this time around:
“I found this time, the tables had turned on me as a man, in terms of how I interacted and played on the screen. I loved, as the character, my woman. My partner. She’s 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 because my ego comes out: ‘Well, I want the big f–king fight. Let me climb something.’ And Patty’s like, ‘No, not about you.’ She said ‘not about you’ more times making this film.”
Full details on the Wonder Woman 1984 plot are currently unknown, though the film will follow Gal Gadot’s titular hero as she comes into conflict with the Soviet Union in the 1980s and encounters a formidable new adversary named Cheetah.
Directed by Patty Jenkins from a script she co-wrote with David Callaham and a treatment she developed with Geoff Johns, Wonder Woman 1984 stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wigg, Pedro Pascal, Natasha Rothwell, Ravi Patel, Gabriella Wilde, Connie Nielson, and Robin Wright.
Wonder Woman 1984 will be released in theaters on June 4, 2020.
Source: Variety
