'Wonder Woman 1984' Surprising End Credits Scene Explained, Honors This Actress

"Wonder Woman 1984" director Patty Jenkins has opened up about the movie's post-credits scene that may have left fans shocked.

In the sequel, Wonder Woman/Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) explains to Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) that long before her, another fierce warrior named Asteria came to the Earth. She owned the golden, winged armor that Wonder Woman wore when she defeated Cheetah (Kristen Wiig).

The Amazonian warrior's existence is then revealed in the end-credit scene when a dark-haired woman saves a group of innocent bystanders from a falling pole at an outdoor market in a vague future. When the Amazon turns around, the warrior turns out to be played by Lynda Carter, the original Wonder Woman. She introduces herself as Asteria and says she has been "doing this for a long time."

In an interview with Glamour, Jenkins explained the post-credits scene, revealing that she wanted to honor Carter. However, it wasn't easy for her to find a role for the 69-year-old actress as she is the first actress to play Wonder Woman.

"It was very hard in the first one because I didn't feel like it would be right to make her Diana's mother or something like that because we all associate her so much with being Wonder Woman," she explained.

"Gal hadn't stepped into that fully yet, and you can't make a Superman movie where Christopher Reeve plays somebody else because we're all just gonna say, that's f----=g Superman! Superman's right there! You can't put Wonder Woman in a first Wonder Woman movie of another Wonder Woman!" she continued.

Jenkins aimed to honor Carter, but she wanted her appearance to be something not too big as to overshadow Gadot and not too small because she was the original Wonder Woman actress.

"I can't throw her away on something small but I can't make her something big," Jenkins said. "What I loved about this way of doing it is that I feel like we're really truly honoring who she is. Who is it that inspired the legacy of the greatest hero of all time: Lynda! So it was like a perfect thing to put it both in the story but actually have it stand for exactly what she means to us."

When Jenkins had finally made up her mind regarding how she would include Carter in "WW84," she immediately called her. Carter did not disappoint and was interested in being part of the film.

"She didn't even know what an end credit scene was or how people would digest it, so we just talked about it and she's was on board," Jenkins added.

In 2017, Carter told People that they were trying to get her in the first "Wonder Woman" movie, but the timing prevented the collaboration from happening. But she was still open to working with Jenkins.

"Am I open to it? Absolutely. I adore Patty Jenkins, and it’ll be wonderful to do. But we’ll just see how that goes," Carter said at the time.