Lynda Carter Reveals That Wonder Woman Producers Thought That Women Will Not Like Her As Diana Because Of Her Costume
by Meenakshi | Tue, 02 Nov 2021 06:47:01 GMT
An Image featuring actress Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot. Source: Allure

The 70-year-old actress and singer Lynda Carter mostly known among the mainstream media and audiences for starring in the titular role of Diana also known as Wonder Woman in the Wonder Woman television series which was released in the 1980s on ABC and CBS, Lynda while appearing at a recent interview with ComicBook.com reveals that the show producers initially thought that the women among the audience will not like her in the leading role of Diana because of her costume.

"When producers mentioned... 'oh women are gonna not like you because the outfits and blah blah blah,' I thought, 'women are going to love me. They're going to want to be me or my best friend because Wonder Woman is non-predatory. Wonder Woman is all of us, That's what I wanted to bring more than anything was that she did not think of herself as all that, that she did not think of herself as that she was the 'it' girl because all of her sisters did the exact same thing that she did on Paradise Island," Carter revealed the details while discussing about her popular superhero series with ComicBook.com.

"On Theymiscira they all did the same thing, she just excelled, but she didn't think that she was particularly special, just in this other world," She continued. "But she knew who she was. And that's the way I played her, that she knew who she was."

"Dara Birnbaum is really innovative, you know, by her commentary on various gendered expectations and that sort of thing," the Wonder Woman actress commented. "It's strange when someone else interprets what is something you created and someone else is interpreting something that you created and having their own artistic vision in a different way than it was intended. So that is what is fascinating to me, the intention of the art piece and art rather than just compilation. What makes it a piece of art is that it is what the juxtapositions mean and it's a transformational piece, going from ordinary to extraordinary."

An Image showcasing Lynda Carter's and Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman. Source: HOLA USA

Lynda Carter was starred in the Wonder Woman show in the role of Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman along with other cast members such as Beatrice Colen in the role of Etta Candy, Richard Eastham in the role of General Philip Blankenship, Lyle Waggoner in the role of Steve Trevor and Steve Trevor Jr. Debra Winger in the role of Drusillaalso known as Wonder Girl.

After playing the role of the fan-favorite superhero character Diana for years, the superstar Lynda Carter was also scheduled to appear in Wonder Women film released in 2017 as a cameo but because of her unavailability during the filming of the movie the plan had to dropped, as Lynda confirmed in a separate interview  "Patty asked me to do a cameo in this. She was in England, and I was doing my concerts," She added" At that time we couldn't get our timing together. So, this next time, if she writes me a decent part, I might do it." However, the beauty pageant title holder Lynda did return as a cameo in the sequel of the film Wonder Woman film.

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