8 Actresses That Would Make a Better Wonder Woman

[Chill]

Alexandra Daddario. Looks just like Wonder Woman. Has really big blue eyes.

 

[Fifty-One]

how the hell is Jaimie Alexander not on that list ?

She would've been my number one pick.

 

[Aankhen]

This seems more 'actresses we think are cool' than 'good candidates for Wonder Woman', and if it had been labelled accordingly I would have agreed. As it stands, Gal Gadot seems like a better fit to me than most of them.

EDIT:

When are web sites going to stop splitting up articles over many pages that could easily have been put on one page?

As long as it's possible, they'll keep doing it. :-\

 

[mrseriousguy]

Alexandra Daddario. Looks just like Wonder Woman. Has really big blue eyes.

You know what I can see what you see with that choice. Actually I would pick her in a heart beat.

 

[CelestDaer]

Here's a thought, why don't we wait until we actually get to see Wonder Woman on screens before you say she's going to be terrible? You don't know.

 

[TaboriHK]

I think a lot of the choices would be good, and I think that more definitively states "we should have more female action stars" than it does "they picked the wrong Wonder Woman."

 

[Jadak]

lol, I love Allison Brie, but the thought of her in that role is so ridiculous I'm having trouble imagining it.

Eva green is great and all, but she tends to be better suited for being way more intense than is fitting for this role.

The one they went with seems just as good as any of the rest.

 

[JimB]

Lastly, Zoe Saldana is black.

Um, I'm pretty sure that is factually incorrect. I mean, I guess one of her parents could be black, but as far as I know they're both ethnically Hispanic, one from the Dominican Republic and one from Puerto Rico.

C'mon, you just put that in there to troll people, right?

Why a group of women descended from a Mediterranean culture--or hell, not even descended, since I'm pretty sure they're all immortal immigrants--ought to be Caucasian is baffling, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with casting Zoe Saldana based on talent and ability over melanin levels of her skin.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Allison Brie? Karen Gillian? Really?

This list seems to go from kind-of-obvious and unsurprising choices like Eva Green or Gwendoline Christie to really weird ones. I mean, Allison Brie is tiny.

 

[elvor0]

Lastly, Zoe Saldana is black.

Um, I'm pretty sure that is factually incorrect. I mean, I guess one of her parents could be black, but as far as I know they're both ethnically Hispanic, one from the Dominican Republic and one from Puerto Rico.

C'mon, you just put that in there to troll people, right?

Why a group of women descended from a Mediterranean culture--or hell, not even descended, since I'm pretty sure they're all immortal immigrants--ought to be Caucasian is baffling, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with casting Zoe Saldana based on talent and ability over melanin levels of her skin.

She has dark skin. Dark enough that at face value, I guessed her to be "black", I didn't think to, nor do I think checking her family tree is really relevant or effects my point. Also because the only thing I've seen her in is Star Trek, as Uhura, (where she did NOTHING OF NOTE! *grumble*) so my memory put her as darker skinned.

I was more pointing it out as a "troll" point because casting a black actor in a white role (Heimdall, Johnny Storm...etc) has historically caused outbursts. Which infuriatingly, gets anyone asking them to stick to the source material labelled as either a racist or a dick. Inversley, where were the crys of racism when Bane(a spaniard from the caribbean) was cast as an English White dude?

They're mostly caucasian, including Wonder Woman herself, because that's how the source material says/shows them to be. The same as Bane being Spanish. Would it be okay for John Stewart to be cast as a white dude, when he's black? Like FUCK it would, there would be crys of racism from here to calcutta.

 

[JimB]

She has dark skin. Dark enough that at face value, I guessed her to be "black." I didn't think to, nor do I think checking her family tree is really relevant or affects my point.

If your point is that being brown precludes a woman from being Wonder Woman, then no, I don't suppose it much matters which particular shade of brown she is. However, it does cast a very unfortunate light on your observation if you declare her black when she's not; it's very difficult to escape "all those people look alike to me" conclusions.

I was more pointing it out as a "troll" point because casting a black actor in a white role (Heimdall, Johnny Storm...etc) has historically caused outbursts. Which infuriatingly, gets anyone asking them to stick to the source material labelled as either a racist or a dick.

It is difficult for me to be sympathetic to this complaint when the people we're talking about are arguing for racial purity of an entirely fictional character and insisting that this imaginary person's skin tone must take priority over a real, live actor getting a job.

Inversely, where were the cries of racism when Bane (a Spaniard from the Caribbean) was cast as an English, white dude?

A Spaniard is a person from Spain. Bane is not from Spain. He's from a fictional Caribbean island.

As for where the cries of racism are, I don't know. I didn't pay any attention to that movie.

Would it be okay for John Stewart to be cast as a white dude, when he's black?

This is an attempt at false equivalency. There is a lot of baggage surrounding casting white actors to play black characters, of actors of any non-white ethnicity losing jobs to white actors. So far as I'm aware, there has never been such an epidemic of white actors being cast aside for black ones based solely on the actors' skin colors.