The 45-year-old actor recalled seeing the films Gremlins, Footloose and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when he was 9. Setting the Wonder Woman sequel in the year 1984 made it personally relatable to Pascal, he said. 'I love that directors and producers are being given the opportunities to have original takes with material that is so familiar to all of us,' Pascal said. The similarity Pascal sees is that both of his projects are faithful to their source material, but push them in new directions. Both projects adapt popular source material - comic books in the film's case and the Star Wars universe in the Disney+ series. Pascal joined in The Mandalorian in 2019, but the actor said he was working on it simultaneously to Wonder Woman 1984. 'If you want something so badly and you start to get it, it's kind of astonishing.' 'That's sort of like a fun way to play him,' Pascal said. Pascal said he enjoyed playing Lord's sense of discovery of his own might. 'Every aspect of it is not what you would expect,' Pascal said.Д®ven Lord is surprised by his powers. Wonder Woman 1984 gives him different powers via a different mechanism, though Pascal didn't spoil what those are.

In the comic books, Lord was a businessman who received telepathic superpowers from alien invaders. 'Her own struggles and journey to do the right thing. 'She's not perfect, either,' Jenkins said during the press conference. Diana faces temptation, too, however, co-writer and director Patty Jenkins said. While Wonder Woman faces threats from two powerful antagonists, Diana hopes to use her powers selflessly.

'What is it about her that makes her so lonely and so invisible and what does she really, really want?' 'We didn't want it to be the sort of typical mousy girl turned villain,' Wiig said at the press conference. Wiig said the loneliness that initially makes her seek a friendship with Diana ultimately sends her down a dark path. Unfortunately, the same power that corrupts Lord also corrupts Barbara. 'Her only goal is just to help and better mankind.' 'She kind of isolated herself from the world,' Gadot said in a Zoom press conference. She hasn't made any new friends until she meets Barbara Minerva ( Kristen Wiig), a new researcher at her museum. Diana hasn't aged a day since 1918, but her friends in the first film have grown old and died, causing Diana to be lonely. In 1984, she is living as her alter ego, Diana Prince. The previous film was set in 1918 and saw Wonder Woman assist American and British forces in World War I. By the time Wonder Woman ( Gal Gadot) meets Lord, she is in a vulnerable place, too.

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