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Lynda Carter discusses the lasting legacy of the "Wonder Woman" television series. Then, she speaks out about becoming a victim of sexual assault and harassment while working on the show.

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00:00 Wonder Woman was a symbol of female empowerment.

00:03 Yes.

00:04 Long before it was invoked.

00:05 [applause]

00:06 Way before its time.

00:09 And it's still resonating today.

00:11 Why?

00:13 You know, I think that I finally figured it out.

00:17 And it is because she was smart.

00:22 She was kind.

00:23 She was beautiful.

00:25 But she could protect herself and other women.

00:30 So I want to go back in time to when you weren't a superstar.

00:35 And you were starting to make Wonder Woman.

00:37 And I didn't even know much about these early days

00:40 because they were foreign to me.

00:42 I wasn't really following what was happening immediately

00:44 when I was in middle school and high school

00:46 and trying to just get my own life in order.

00:49 But I learned that there was actually a peeping Tom

00:52 on your set when you started filming Wonder Woman.

00:56 I mean, how ironic that you're a symbol of power

00:59 and yet you're being preyed upon in your own dressing room.

01:03 What's the story there?

01:05 I was called into the head of Warner Brothers office.

01:12 And they said, we have something that we

01:14 need to talk to you about.

01:16 I'm going, oh, what did I do?

01:18 And did I hang from a helicopter?

01:20 I almost got fired for that.

01:23 But they said, we have discovered

01:26 that the cameraman has drilled a hole in the back

01:33 of your dressing room.

01:34 And someone caught him going back there and reported it.

01:38 And Warner Brothers stepped up to the plate

01:41 and caught him and fired him and drummed him out

01:45 of the business.

01:47 Good for them.

01:48 Good for them.

01:50 How did it affect you to know that a man had

01:54 been watching you in your most intimate moments

01:57 naked in your dressing room?

01:59 You know, I felt--

02:00 well, I hadn't really thought about it

02:08 in many years until this Me Too movement came about.

02:13 It's one of those things that you put in your rear view

02:15 mirror.

02:17 So it's only recently that it's been unearthed in my psyche,

02:23 I guess you would say, again.

02:25 And it's a good question because I think I felt embarrassed.

02:32 Back then, what do you do?

02:34 They did what they did, and I'm grateful to them.

02:37 But we didn't have any recourse back then.

02:41 We told our girlfriends, when things happen,

02:45 you sort of feel embarrassed.

02:46 What did I do?

02:49 If you had somebody that said something to you

02:53 or you just went to have a drink with your girlfriends

02:55 and you're having fun and you're dancing

02:57 and then someone says something to you or a group of guys,

03:02 and then you all of a sudden feel embarrassed

03:04 and you think, what did I do?

03:06 I was just having fun.

03:08 And am I right?

03:10 Am I getting to what you're--

03:13 right?

03:14 I see these women and they're saying, was it--

03:18 you know, I'm just a--

03:20 I'm a woman.

03:20 I'm an entire woman.

03:22 I'm having fun.

03:23 I'm just being who I am.

03:25 And that is not an invitation.

03:28 Hello.

03:29 [applause]

03:31 Get it through your head.

03:35 Well, what kinds of sexual harassment did you face?

03:38 Here you are.

03:39 I faced some.

03:41 And I will mention one person publicly.

03:45 He's no longer around to defend himself.

03:49 The reason I bring it up is it's not so much to pry into him

03:52 but to understand you.

03:54 So this gentleman, whoever it is,

03:56 Letras, known to others besides you.

03:58 Oh, and Letras in a way that is just, you know, hey, come on in.

04:04 You want to read a few lines?

04:06 And you know, into the trailer, he's got a series and a bunch--

04:10 oh, yeah, you know, would you take your top off?

04:13 No.

04:15 You know, just this-- it's like, you know,

04:17 all the guys are--

04:19 all of his friends--

04:20 just stupid things like that.

04:22 But I am curious if this Letras gentleman, for example,

04:26 had asked you to do something and you'd

04:27 fought too hard with him, would you have

04:29 been blacklisted in Hollywood?

04:33 Well, I used humor, I guess, to get out of those situations.

04:37 It's like, seriously?

04:41 Are you kidding me?

04:44 Yeah, I mean, with that, in that particular situation,

04:49 which was real--

04:50 he was a bald guy and had a cop show--

04:52 you know, so if you kind of confront them,

04:55 then-- so you use a way that they have a deniability

05:00 about what they're doing.

05:01 No, I was just kidding.

05:02 And that was the way you sort of got out of it.

05:04 Am I right?

05:06 It's one of our ways that we can try to, you know,

05:12 try to weasel--

05:13 get our ways out of it, unless they really

05:15 are rapists and assaulters and they are trying to grab you.

05:21 And, you know, then it gets more serious.

05:25 But in your case, there was actually

05:26 a deeper double standard.

05:27 Because you're dressed as a superhero.

05:30 It's a costume.

05:31 Yes.

05:32 And people--

05:33 it was more than what they were wearing to the beach.

05:39 I was wearing more than what they were wearing to the beach.

05:45 But also the male superheroes, they were just--

05:47 Wore a sock in their pocket.

05:50 Yeah.

05:51 Yeah.

05:52 Sock in their pants.

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