Lynda Carter is paying tribute and honoring the late Jeannie Epper, the Marvel Lady stunt performer.
Epper died on Sunday on the age of 83. She carried out stunts within the Seventies Marvel Lady TV sequence and movies like The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift and Kill Invoice: Vol. 2.
“I’ve quite a bit to say about Jeannie Epper. Most of all, I liked 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 spite of everything, it was the 70s. We have been united in the way in which that girls needed to be with a purpose to thrive in a person’s world, by means of mutual respect, mind and collaboration.”
Carter continued, “Jeannie was a vanguard who paved the way in which for all different stuntwomen who got here after. Simply as Diana was Marvel Lady, Jeannie Epper was additionally a Marvel Lady. She is so lovely to me. Jeannie, I’ll miss you.”
The Marvel Lady star shared a photograph in costume alongside Epper, remembering their time on the TV sequence set.
Epper was a founding member in 1968 of the Stuntwomen’s Affiliation of Movement Photos, Epper’s greater than 150 movie credit additionally included Catch Me If You Can, Romancing the Stone, The Wonderful Spider-Man, and The Princess Diaries. She was spotlighted in Double Dare, Amanda Micheli’s 2004 documentary about stuntwomen.
She turned president of the Stuntwomen’s Affiliation of Movement Photos in 1999 and remained an honorary member. She acquired a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Taurus World Stunt Awards, the primary girl to be chosen for the distinction.