Episode 1187 - Patty Jenkins

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Patty Jenkins's connection to superheroes runs deep. Long before she became the first woman to direct a major superhero film, Patty was relying on Superman to help her process the loss of her father. Marc talks with Patty about how she was intrigued by the romance of tragedy, as filtered through the type of mythic storytelling depicted in her two Wonder Woman movies. They also talk about her time as a punk rocker, her years working the camera on hip-hop videos, and how the Beatniks are responsible for her entry into the film business.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:03.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:13.3	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck nicks, what the fuck
0:18.8	sters, what's happening, how are you, what's going on, how did you make it, did you get
0:23.4	what you wanted, did you break it, did you return it, were you disappointed with the
0:27.5	person that loves you, were you excited by them, I want to congratulate everybody who got
0:32.6	Mark Merrin merchandise, wear it well, enjoy it, enjoy that t-shirt, that hat, that mug,
0:38.2	that poster, dig it.
0:39.8	Today I'm talking to Patty Jenkins, she's the director of Wonder Woman 1984, she was the
0:47.2	first woman to ever direct a superhero franchise movie, when she directed the first Wonder
0:52.3	Woman, she also wrote and directed the film Monster, as well as a lot of television, you've
0:56.7	probably seen, I watched the movie, I watched both of them, I hadn't seen either of them,
1:03.6	I did not see Wonder Woman when it came out, you know why, because I don't watch comic book
1:08.3	movies, I enjoyed the Wonder Woman movies, but I don't know what to compare them to, I
1:13.8	don't know what a good movie is, when it comes to superhero movies, or what a bad one
1:17.5	is, I was just not a comic book person, and as time goes on and I talk to comic book
1:21.8	people, it seems that, you know, I'll admit this, I might have missed out, I might have
1:27.1	missed out by not being taught to enjoy sports, comic books, fantasy of any kind, food that
1:36.0	was fun, yeah I just, I think I was poorly parented which we've established, but I was given
1:42.9	the gift of a sense of humor most days, and the love of music by my folks, but nothing
1:51.1	anyone could do to get me to be excited about a ball moving across a field of any kind,
1:58.5	from racket to racket person to person, foot to foot, no go, don't care, hand to hand,
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