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Her name is Gal Gadot. She's Israeli, where she was a physical trainer in the Israeli army.
Gal Godot
Somebody buy her a steak and egg breakfast. She has acting experience, bit parts in the Fast and Furious films, apparently; never seen them. As someone with some experience in physical training, I gather she understands the task before her if she wants to fill the suit. She does not seem obviously bad for the part, which is a plus.
My misgivings are less about her, and more about Warner/DC, which has proven again and again that the current people in charge are clueless as to how to treat the national treasures they control. Man of Steel was as solemn and joyless as most Batman pictures are. Marvel/Disney has recently made probably the two best superhero films ever made -- Avengers and Captain America -- and they understand something that's eluded DC so far. Marvel/Disney's best films are all about, "here are our characters, being awesome". Warner/DC is still stuck on "this is why it sucks to be that guy". This is where MoS went wrong.
A Wonder Woman movie appearance that gets stuck on "it sucks to be Wonder Woman" will fail as hard as the current Wonder Woman comic book fails, for the same reason. I no longer trust Warner/DC to be smart enough not to do this.
Gal Godot
Somebody buy her a steak and egg breakfast. She has acting experience, bit parts in the Fast and Furious films, apparently; never seen them. As someone with some experience in physical training, I gather she understands the task before her if she wants to fill the suit. She does not seem obviously bad for the part, which is a plus.
My misgivings are less about her, and more about Warner/DC, which has proven again and again that the current people in charge are clueless as to how to treat the national treasures they control. Man of Steel was as solemn and joyless as most Batman pictures are. Marvel/Disney has recently made probably the two best superhero films ever made -- Avengers and Captain America -- and they understand something that's eluded DC so far. Marvel/Disney's best films are all about, "here are our characters, being awesome". Warner/DC is still stuck on "this is why it sucks to be that guy". This is where MoS went wrong.
A Wonder Woman movie appearance that gets stuck on "it sucks to be Wonder Woman" will fail as hard as the current Wonder Woman comic book fails, for the same reason. I no longer trust Warner/DC to be smart enough not to do this.
