![]() ![]() ![]() Wiig has focused predominantly on feature films since “SNL,” including her lauded role on 2011’s “Bridesmaids,” for which she earned an Oscar nom as a co-writer on the original screenplay. The role would have been Wiig’s first return to television since her 2005-2012 stint on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Sources say Apple is still eager to develop the series and that producers are regrouping. The 10-episode straight to series order marked Apple’s first scripted comedy order. They're sort of on this journey together, and that's really the point toward the end where they choose to do different things with what they're given.Kristen Wiig has departed Apple’s adaptation of Curtis Sittenfield’s upcoming collection of short stories, “You Think It, I’ll Say It,” Variety has confirmed.Īn Apple Worldwide Video spokeswoman confirmed the exit is a result of conflicts with Wiig’s shooting schedule for “Wonder Woman 1984,” in which she plays the villain Cheetah. “In the beginning, they're almost similar in the way they're living their life, and they're so sort of separated from people and lonely and feel like no one understands them. “The fact that Diana and Barbara go two different ways with it is really where you see their differences,” Wiig says. “I was feeling different as Barbara was feeling different, which was kind of a cool thing that I wasn't expecting.”īarbara/Cheetah is a physical character, but Wiig had to bring depth to her, too: Both she and Wonder Woman make fateful wishes – for Diana, it's bringing back her lost love (Chris Pine), who died during World War I (see: the first "Wonder Woman") – that take as well as give, and Wiig’s character is loath to give up her new power, even as it’s having an adverse effect on her humanity. To throw down properly with Gadot, Wiig did stunt training for the entire eight months of filming, plus two months before, “so I was actually physically getting stronger as the movie was being shot,” Wiig says. I just believed she would have no problem getting there.” “She's just a perfect fit for this fun-to-be-with girlfriend that you love and is funny and is interesting in that space, but then who has the inner fortitude and the acting chops to get to the end part,” Jenkins says. Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, left) and Cheetah (Kristen Wiig) tussle in the White House in "Wonder Woman 1984." (Her final form is computer-generated, with Wiig doing her scenes in a motion-capture suit.) The dowdy clothes and glasses Barbara dons at the start of director Patty Jenkins’ “1984” ultimately give way to a cheetah-print leather look she wears while tossing around Wonder Woman in the White House and later going full-primal as the animalistic Cheetah in the film’s action-packed climax. “That's kind of her biggest jump, except of course for the very end.” ![]() And she just looks totally different than she did 10 minutes before in the movie,” Wiig says now, two years after that filming day. “She was so surprised that she looked like that, but she was also kind of unaware. Barbara, a mousy geologist who befriends our heroine Diana Prince ( Gal Gadot), makes a fateful wish on a mystical rock to be powerful and more confident like her new Smithsonian co-worker, and the resulting transformation changes her fashion, physicality and ferocity. The sequence in "1984" (in theaters now and streaming on HBO Max) is a small but key evolution for Wonder Woman’s newest archnemesis, Cheetah. Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) gets a fashion makeover as part of her transformation into the ferocious Cheetah in "Wonder Woman 1984." ![]()
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