"One of my girlfriends texted me a picture of Sister Night and said, 'Who would have known that your costume would be our grocery store outfit?'" King said.
“Speaking to IndieWire over the phone in an interview in mid-May, the “Watchmen” star assured me, however, that even though comic books escaped her purview as a child, cartoons didn’t. And more than that, King was smitten with Wonder Woman, a powerful woman always in charge of her own fate.
“There’s something about Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman, Diana, that even though she had a small costume, I still never felt like she was being objectified,” King said. “For the late 1970s, for her to be able to find that line, to be able to walk it and for me to not feel offended as a young girl watching it, but still feel that she’s feminine and strong, is remarkable.”
King knows a thing or two about powerful women, having made a career of playing empathetic women who nevertheless have spines made of steel. But her role as Angela Abar a.k.a. Sister Night in “Watchmen” was next level, and stepping into Night’s habit felt like something that was a long time coming.
“Having a very strong mother and grandmother and aunts, all those things that were synonymous with being a woman exist in [Carter’s] portrayal [and that was] was exciting for me,” she said. “I mean, Sister Night was long overdue. We needed a Black woman to be that, to feel that. I wish I had that as a young girl. I wish I had a Diana Prince and a Sister Night. I think that I would have been more conscious that the possibility of that happening would have been, but that wasn’t the case. So cut to now, 30 years later, and I get the opportunity to hopefully be that for another teenager.”
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