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Lynda Carter wants to get in on the action
Yes, she’d appear in a sequel for ‘ Wonder Woman’
If you’re one of the many fans who felt there was a Lynda Carter- size void in the box-officebusting Wonder Woman, you can still hold out hope that the actress who portrayed Diana Prince in the 1970s television series will appear in the sequel.
Though the studio has yet to formally announce a follow- up film, director Patty Jenkins told Entertainment Weekly she already has a vision for the second movie, which she says “will take place in the U. S.”
A possible sequel was also the topic of conversation Friday when Carter joined Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in the library’s Coolidge Auditorium.
The first female head of the library asked if Carter would consider taking a role in the next movie.
“( Jenkins) asked me to do a cameo in this. She was in England, and I was doing my concerts,” Carter said, explaining she had singing engagements that made her unavailable.
“At that time, we couldn’t get our timing together. So, this next time, if she writes me a decent part, I might do it.”
Carter delivered that last line with her typical wit, which leads us to believe that if there is another film to be made, we’ll see her icy blue eyes in it.
She has been a vocal fan of the film, tweeting in May that it’s “fabulous!! ( And) Patty Jenkins is such a talented director.” Even before seeing the film, Carter told Jenkins that it would “gross over a billion dollars.”
Carter also attended the Wonder Woman premiere, where the film’s star, Gal Gadot, bowed down to her.
“I went with my family — my grown children and my husband — to the premiere, and my heart was pounding,” Carter said from the Library of Congress stage Friday. “And I was taken up because the essence of who that character is for so many of us, and for so long. There’s a goodness; there’s a heart. It’s about something. It’s about who we are as people against the violence. It’s about defending what’s right.”
Carter also sang Jenkins praises: “She just put every effort into it, and we talked an awful lot. She’s brilliant. She’s a brilliant director.”
It’s clear that Carter holds the new film and the character introduced more than 75 years ago dear. “Many actresses or actors, they want to divorce themselves from a role because we are actors — we really aren’t the people that we play. But I knew very early on that this character is much more than me certainly, and to try to divorce myself from the experiences that other people have of the character is silly,” Carter said. “( The stories are) so much fun for me to hear, and to look at the glimmer in the eyes of parents who tell me about their children or people who tell me about their own experiences about the feelings that they have about themselves. This is all part of the sisterhood. It’s all part of the idea of Wonder Woman. It’s you. It’s you and me. It’s you and me and Patty and Gal. It’s all of us.”