With two `Wonder Woman` movies under her belt and big-budget tent poles such as `Cleopatra` and `Star Wars: Rogue Squadron` in her future, Patty Jenkins has emerged as one of the biggest female filmmakers in the world. And yet, it took nearly quitting the superhero franchise she helped turn into a worldwide phenomenon to ensure she would be paid equal to her male director counterparts.

On a recent episode of MTV's `Happy Sad Confused` podcast (via NME), Jenkins got honest about the salary dispute that erupted over `Wonder Woman 1984.`

Jenkins was reportedly paid about $1 million base salary to direct the first Wonder Woman, which grossed over $400 million in the United States. As she noted during the interview, that amount pales in comparison to what several of her male counterparts have gotten during their transitions from indie darlings to blockbuster superhero movie directors

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`It was an easy fight to say, 'This can't be. It super can't be. And it really can't be on Wonder Woman.' It was an interesting thing to do, but it was an easy thing to do in the fact I was dead serious,` she said. `If I can't be victorious in that regard, then I'm letting everybody down. If not me, who?`

Wonder Woman 1984 comes out in theaters and on HBO Max December 25.