Lynda Carter is paying tribute and honoring the late Jeannie Epper, the Marvel Girl stunt performer.
Epper died on Sunday on the age of 83. She carried out stunts within the Nineteen Seventies Marvel Girl TV collection and movies like The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift and Kill Invoice: Vol. 2.
“I’ve lots to say about Jeannie Epper. Most of all, I beloved her. I at all times felt that we understood and appreciated each other,” Carter wrote in a message posted on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter. “In any case, it was the 70s. We have been united in the best way that ladies needed to be with the intention to thrive in a person’s world, via mutual respect, mind and collaboration.”
Carter continued, “Jeannie was a vanguard who paved the best way for all different stuntwomen who got here after. Simply as Diana was Marvel Girl, Jeannie Epper was additionally a Marvel Girl. She is so lovely to me. Jeannie, I’ll miss you.”
The Marvel Girl star shared a photograph in costume alongside Epper, remembering their time on the TV collection set.
Epper was a founding member in 1968 of the Stuntwomen’s Affiliation of Movement Footage, Epper’s greater than 150 movie credit additionally included Catch Me If You Can, Romancing the Stone, The Superb Spider-Man, and The Princess Diaries. She was spotlighted in Double Dare, Amanda Micheli’s 2004 documentary about stuntwomen.
She grew to become president of the Stuntwomen’s Affiliation of Movement Footage in 1999 and remained an honorary member. She obtained a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Taurus World Stunt Awards, the primary girl to be chosen for the respect.
