It’s hard to imagine a world in which Gal Gadot is not Wonder Woman. The actress has made the role hers and has become one of most popular super hero’s in this era of super hero films. While Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot have proven to be a fantastic team and the two essential pieces to the puzzle that made the film successful, things almost didn’t go down that way.
While speaking with Playboy about the, Jenkins revealed that she wasn’t all too happy when the decision to cast Gadot was made without her,
“I wouldn’t have done the project if I had even the slightest problem with it. That’s how important casting is. I remember when I read in the news that Wonder Woman had been cast and my heart sank. I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it and I was like well ‘that’s that.’ I’m sure we wouldn’t have made the same choice. And then I started paying attention to her, and watching her and looking at her and it was just unbelievable.
“Frankly, I think they did a better job than I could have because I don’t know that I would have scoured the earth as hard to find her. I don’t know that I would’ve looked internationally. I would have just looked for an American girl. The fact that they found Gal and chose her is a magical gift to me. They’re incredibly intelligent people and they were looking for all the same things I would have looked for—all the values that Wonder Woman stands for exuding from someone in an honest way, and boy did they find it. She’s the greatest.”
It is safe to say that the right choice was made as Gal Gadot captured the hearts of everyone as her role as Diana Prince.
