Untangling James Cameron’s Icy Feuds From Over the Years

In 2017, Cameron called out the positive response to director Patty Jenkin’s Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot.

"All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he shared with The Guardian. "She's an objectified icon, and it's just male Hollywood doing the same old thing. I'm not saying I didn't like the movie but, to me, it's a step backwards."

Comparing the superhero to his iconic Terminator character, he continued, "Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon. She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit. And to me, [the benefit of characters like Sarah] is so obvious. I mean, half the audience is female!"

Jenkins, for her part, called Cameron’s critique in a message shared to social media “unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman.”