--- title: Wonder Woman Director Responds to Hillary Clinton's Praise description: Patty Jenkins calls the response to her film by Hillary Clinton "completely surreal" in a new interview. canonical: https://time.com/4922099/patty-jenkins-hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-30T18:42:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:56.310Z og:title: Wonder Woman Director Responds to Hillary Clinton's Praise og:description: "It's completely surreal," says Patty Jenkins og:url: https://time.com/4922099/patty-jenkins-hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bb088ee0ef0914e/6988cf53bc6cfc90613e193d/wonder-woman-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Film Review Wonder Woman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wonder Woman Director Responds to Hillary Clinton's Praise twitter:description: "It's completely surreal," says Patty Jenkins twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bb088ee0ef0914e/6988cf53bc6cfc90613e193d/wonder-woman-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Wonder Woman_ Director Patty Jenkins Responds to Praise from Hillary Clinton  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 30, 2017 6:42 PM UTC  Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.Clay Enos—Warner Bros. Entertainment/AP  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 30, 2017 6:42 PM UTC _Wonder Woman_ director [Patty Jenkins](http://time.com/4819569/patty-jenkins-wonder-woman-director-interview/) has received much praise for her blockbuster superhero movie — but there was one person whose reaction was especially noteworthy: [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4818249/hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/), who named the film [in a mass email.](https://still4hill.com/2017/08/22/email-from-hillary-clinton-4/) In the missive, she noted that it was “just as inspirational as I’d suspected a movie about a strong, powerful woman in a fight to save the world from international disaster would be.” (She also called Jenkins “fabulous” in a [previous address](http://time.com/4818249/hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/).) In a new interview [with _Cosmopolitan_](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a12121722/patty-jenkins-lucy-davis-wonder-woman-dvd-interview/), Jenkins reflected on Clinton’s compliments. “It’s completely surreal! Those sorts of crossovers to the real world are surreal because there’s like two versions of me,” Jenkins explained. “There’s the me that’s like, ‘Wow! \[Wonder Woman\] is this \[kind of icon\] to so many people, so I’m not surprised.’ On the other hand, I’m like, ‘So… our film? Those things we did, those people have watched? Oh, my god!’ And I’m so honored that we’re being talked about by \[Hillary Clinton\] in this world.” Jenkins [recently defended her film](http://time.com/4915423/patty-jenkins-james-cameron-wonder-woman-response/) after comments by _Avatar_ director [James Cameron](http://time.com/4915313/wonder-woman-james-cameron-objectified-icon/), who said in another interview that _Wonder Woman_ was not as revolutionary to the film industry as the hype suggested. Regardless of Clinton or Cameron’s praise — or lack thereof — the _Wonder Woman_ sequel has already been given the green light. It’s [expected to hit theaters](http://time.com/4874018/wonder-woman-sequel-2019/) in late 2019, with Jenkins [reportedly in negotiations](http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/18/wonder-woman-sequel-patty-jenkins/) to direct. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4922099/patty-jenkins-hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4922099/patty-jenkins-hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/"},"headline":"Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins Responds to Praise from Hillary Clinton","datePublished":"2017-08-30T18:42:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:56.310Z","description":"Patty Jenkins calls the response to her film by Hillary Clinton \"completely surreal\" in a new interview.","url":"https://time.com/4922099/patty-jenkins-hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","wonder woman","hillary clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bb088ee0ef0914e/6988cf53bc6cfc90613e193d/wonder-woman-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bb088ee0ef0914e/6988cf53bc6cfc90613e193d/wonder-woman-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Film Review Wonder Woman","caption":"Film Review Wonder Woman","creditText":"Clay Enos—Warner Bros. 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