Gal Gadot may not seem like the ideal choice for Wonder Woman, and the backlash that casting got was due to her physique. Yes, we all know that women in comic books are drawn very well endowed, so fanboys’ first initial reactions were about the lack of boobage on the actress. Another complaint about Gadot, is the skinny profile she has. Wonder Woman is a strong amazonian woman, so of course we need some who can fit that profile. But I don’t get why people didn’t think they wouldn’t bulk her a bit like the other actors. Gadot chimed in on preparations for playing Wonder Woman in Batman Vs. Superman.
It’s the physical preparations that I’m starting now. A very serious training regime – Kung Fu, kickboxing, swords, jujutsu, Brazilian…1,000 and 1 things…I’ll gain body mass.
I can wrap my head around a similar body type to Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider. Jolie looked great, and if you look at her now, she is probably just as skinny as Gadot. Though many will still complain about the boobs, and she chimed in on that as well.
Hmm. I represent the Wonder Women of the new world. Breasts… anyone can buy for 9,000 shekels and everything is fine. By the way, Wonder Woman is amazonian, and historically accurate amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I’d really go ‘by the book’…it’d be problematic.
Great points. It is amazing how shallow people get about casting. It should be more about the material and how she portrays the character, not that size of her lady parts.
Gadot then went on to talked about when she got the news about landing the role.
I was just on my way to shooting at LA. I landed at NY in a connection flight when my agent, Hadass Lichtenstein, called me. She says to me ‘Wonder Woman!’ and I’m like ‘What??’ – ‘The role is yours!…and it’s a secret and the news are not yet announced and you can’t tell anyone…’. I’m saying to her ‘Are you serious??’ – and we both scream! Now it’s a plane from Israel to NY and I can’t make loud noise, and so I lean on a window, bending down to my legs, and just try to understand. Long story short – I was totally alone in NY, I got to a hotel at 12 PM, I needed to wake up in the morning for shootings. I remember laying in the darkness by myself, staring at the ceiling, and I was telling myself ‘It’s not real!’ It shouldn’t be like that, I’m supposed to be like, ‘Where’s the champagne?
Must have been pretty surreal no doubt, and she still has a little over a month to train for the role. Batman Vs. Superman will begin production in February, and hopefully we will see a slew of set pictures.
Source: Movieweb