The Original Wonder Woman Lynda Carter Presents Patty Jenkins With Her Woman of the Year Award
On a night filled with countless wonderful women, we were lucky enough to be in the presence of two bonafide Wonder Women. At Monday night’s Women of the Year Awards, the O.G. Wonder Woman, the fabulous Lynda Carter, presented honoree and Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins with her award. Their friendship is actual squad goals (Justice League goals?), and Carter said of Jenkins, “She is a force to be reckoned with and she always has been.”
Carter added, “She got the essence of Wonder Woman because it lives inside her. She took the challenge of this miracle of an ideas and an iconic ’70s TV show and she made the ‘she’ become the ‘we’ on the big screen all over the world.”
In accepting her award, Jenkins acknowledged and thanked the loving, inspiring, and impactful Wonder Women in her own life. “No person’s an island,” she said, acknowledging what it means to have a Wonder Woman to look up to in 2017. Wonder Woman “stands for a new kind of hero who is strong and powerful and can fight the bad guy, but also believes in love and thoughtfulness.”
That sequel can’t come soon enough.