With Wonder Woman now playing around the world, I can finally post my interview with director Patty Jenkins. While I wanted to post it right after I sat down with her, since we discussed some slight spoilers, I decided I needed to wait until you had the opportunity to see the film.

During the interview, Jenkins talks about the rumors the film was a mess, how they didn’t have any deleted scenes, how little changed from the first cut to the finished film, if they had a lot of debate over Wonder Woman killing people, how old Diana is, if in a future movie Wonder Woman might fly, if Jenkins would want to jump right into a sequel, and a lot more.

Check out what she had to say below. Written by Allan Heinberg with a story by Zack Snyder & Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, Wonder Woman stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, David Thewlis, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, Connie Nielsen, Ewen Bremner, Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Eugene Brave Rock, and Saïd Taghmaoui.

Collider: I always ask all directors about the editing room because the editing room really is where the movie's made.

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PATTY JENKINS: It's where the magic happens.

What did you learn from early friends and family screenings and test screenings that impacted the finished film?

JENKINS: You know, it's not like a long journey didn't happen but what amazes me is how little has actually changed from the first cut other than tightening… little changes to the final battle, that was really it. I think that what I ended up finding about the final battle was I was hitting emotional points for Diana that I really wanted to hit but I felt a craving for some other kinds of emotional gratification and engagement that we tried to accentuate even more. I think what you learn is rhythm, tone, humor where the jokes are happening but in our case, I just now can finally say all this. We didn't cut one scene in this movie nor did we change the order of one scene in this movie from the script that we went in shooting with.

That's crazy.

JENKINS: Isn't it?

I've never heard of this happening.

JENKINS: Not one, not one. We replaced the walk to No Man's Land with a different walk to No Man's Land. And we’ve got the DVD now, they keep wanting to put cut scenes and there aren't any.

There's literally no deleted scenes?

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JENKINS: None.

That's crazy.

JENKINS: Yep. That was true on Monster's Will so I do delight in it.

I was going to ask you about deleted scenes and stuff but apparently there is zero.

JENKINS: There aren't any and that was actually the most frustrating thing when somebody made up the rumor that it was a mess and I was like "Really? A mess? It's the opposite. It is so steady. It's been so even keel and steady." It's been such an opposite experience.

It's so interesting though because the amount of rumor mongering that exists on the internet now. For example, someone recently came out and said that Justice League has been re-shot twice.

JENKINS: How would they even have time to do that?

My question is with the re-shooting of Justice League twice, hasn't Gal been pregnant? Didn't Henry have a knee injury and Ben's been-

JENKINS: Yeah, they're all off doing other things.

Yeah. So who was shooting on these days? Who was on set, that's what I want to know.

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JENKINS: Exactly. The rumor mill of these movies has been quite something to behold. I tried to learn to tune it out but the one thing I want to say to readers because it truly was stunning to me to watch is you truly can't believe how absolutely false certain things are until you're on the inside of one these things. You're like, there's not even kind of where there's smoke, there's fire. There is absolutely lies-

Did you ever want to literally start tweeting or put out something?

JENKINS: Yeah. You want to and then you have to restrain yourself because you'll go crazy if you start doing that all the time. Definitely I was angry about the rumor that it was a mess because it was clearly a lie, it was clearly based on someone who had zero experience because there wasn't anybody that you would be able to find that said that. It's been a totally smooth ... You know, everybody else was busy on doing other movies and we were chugging along, without any drama. I felt like the destructive quality that comes from oh, everybody knows, when you're making something out of nothing and it was hurtful to a production to make it seem like something is true but what are you going to do? You have to make the movie and get to the other side of it. I've been fucking dying to show the movie as a result. For a long time.

When the comic book characters were created years and years ago, there was obviously this mentality of a good guy can't kill. One of the things with Wonder Woman is she kills.

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JENKINS: Yes, she does.

Was there ever a debate about that? Was that ever something that came up and people were like can she do this? Was that something that you guys debated?

JENKINS: Yeah. I think I have stronger feelings about that than most. It wasn't a huge hot topic of debate. I think that I probably care about her being less violent and easy to violence than anybody else because one of my favorite things about Wonder Woman is that she takes no relish in fighting and she's not going out of her way to kill but I, myself, completely relate with the character who when push comes to shove and somebody's got to step up and do it, then somebody's got to step up and do it. I love that duality of Wonder Woman that she's both wants peace and means peace but when push comes to shove and someone needs to be put down like a dog, that's what she would be willing to do. Yeah, we didn't end up having to talk about it because I was already trying to keep it that way. Interestingly really, there's the problem of how do you deal with the Germans and war and you're fighting them. I actually spent a lot of time looking at interestingly Indiana Jones because that was like they're plowing through World War II but you're not viscerally delighting in killing. That was the cue that I took, she's trying to take people out and certainly some of those people are being killed because that's what it would take. You're not getting into the act of killing as something you delight in.

I'm of the opinion that, this is really on a tangent, I'm of the opinion that this day and age the mentality of Batman and Superman has to change. If you're dealing with a psychotic killer, locking him in Arkham so he can come out in a month makes no sense.

JENKINS: Yeah, absolutely.

I don't have a problem with Wonder Woman putting someone down but I agree with everything you said about she doesn't want to do it.

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JENKINS: Yeah.

But if she has to.

JENKINS: Yeah, I agree.

I definitely want to touch on how old do you think she actually is?

JENKINS: Well, I think she's thousands of years old. Really, I think she's a child but she's probably 800...

Have you had this conversation?

JENKINS: Oh yeah.

You've heard this one?

JENKINS: Oh my God, have I had that conversation. Ad nauseam. Because the truth was I kept talking about listen, this is her coming of age story. How is she coming of age and how long does that take to learn these lessons. Well, it would take a long time but also we don't know how long it took to get to that moment that she finally does the energy blast and then Steve arrives. That might have taken that whole time or the middle stage might've taken longer and she's been fighting for a decent amount of time. It's like you stretch out that time period to her living for a long time and that's her aging.

Sure. You think the internal debate at Warner Brothers and DC is she's about 800?

JENKINS: Yes.

Or this is your thing?

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JENKINS: This is my thing and everybody has a different opinion.

Got it. Do you think in a future movie she has the ability to fly?

JENKINS: I think that what we realized in the course of this movie is that there are ways you can manipulate your powers to do all kinds of things. I see her learning to use her powers progressively throughout the movie and I'm building to her having greater powers as she goes on.

Sure. This is something that I think some people are going to wonder. Is she bulletproof?

JENKINS: She's not bulletproof but she's not easily killed by it, she heals very quickly but she can be killed.

With bullets?

JENKINS: Yeah.

Because I think some people are going to wonder, even though it's shown by the end of the movie, it's almost like she is more powerful. She's gaining power as the movie goes on.

JENKINS: Yes. That's true and the thing that is actually shielding her in the end is her own love. She's exuding a change of attitude, which makes her impervious to his power.

This is going to be what we call a box office hit.

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JENKINS: Yeah, I hope so.

It's not a debate.

JENKINS: God, thank you.

I speak to a lot of filmmakers and some like James Gunn jumped right back in to Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Others have gone off and then come back. I know you must've just finished the movie, are you even contemplating if this is a hit do I want to jump right back?

JENKINS: Oh sure. Yeah, of course. I think about it all the time. There's no way you can't love and be involved with these characters and this world and not think about all of the beautiful things to come.

Sure. Are you already in the back of the brain...are the ideas firing?

JENKINS: Yeah.

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