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Much of the action was also filmed in Britain, with locations including the Kent village of Lower Halstow, King’s Cross Station and London’s Trafalgar Square. The fairer sex even plays the villain: Doctor Poison, a mad scientist who concocts deadly gasses, is portrayed by Spanish actress Elena Anaya.

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Unusually for a Hollywood blockbuster, around 60 per cent of the cast is female, and the supporting actors are all women: Robin Wright (from the critically-acclaimed House Of Cards), Connie Nielsen (from Ridley Scott’s Gladiator) and English actress Lucy Davis, known for her TV role in The Office. (Quite soon afterwards, he strips completely naked and jumps in a bath so Wonder Woman can tend to his wound, which may go some way to explaining fans’ enthusiastic praise.) In fact, they’re so scarce that not a single man appears on screen for the first 15 minutes - and, when he does, he’s a bedraggled and half-drowned pilot (played by Chris Pine) who’s washed up on a beach after a plane crash.

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman in the TV series of the late 1970s In the opening sequences of the film, we watch the female warriors practising their fighting skills, riding around on white horses in revealing gold armour and generally revelling in the lack of menfolk. Island of the female warriorsīased on the all-female island of Themyscira, a fictional paradise created by the gods of Mount Olympus, it’s no wonder men are hard to come by. During reshoots last November, the actress was five months pregnant and had to wear a special costume fitted with a ‘green screen’ over her stomach, so the bump could be edited out - and replaced with shots of her flat, pre-pregnancy figure - in post-production. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Gal filmed several scenes while pregnant with her youngest daughter, Maya, who was born in March. ‘I had a tent in the studio and every time we had a break, I went training,’ she reveals. She didn’t get the part, but caught the acting bug, and was cast in Wonder Woman after open auditions in 2015.įor the part, Gal had extensive training in martial arts, horseriding, kickboxing and swordsmanship, as well as enduring a diet of salmon and pasta to help her gain 17lb of muscle. Opportunity soon came knocking: in 2007, she was spotted by a British casting director who asked her to audition for the role of a Bond girl in Quantum Of Solace, the second Daniel Craig 007 film. She went on to study law and international relations, then won the Miss Israel beauty pageant in 2004 (having been scouted in a shopping centre). Her CV reads like that of a real-life wonder woman.Īged 20, Gal was called up for military service and spent two years as a combat instructor in the Israeli Defense Forces, during which she had front-line training.

Her unusual name - pronounced ‘Goll Ga-dote’ - is Hebrew: Gal means ‘wave’ and Gadot means ‘riverbanks’.

The striking brunette is the daughter of a teacher and an engineer and lives in Tel Aviv with her husband of eight years, 38-year-old property developer Yaron Versano, and two daughters. You’ve probably never heard of Gal Gadot, the 32-year-old Israeli actress who plays the lead. The plot may be preposterous, but fans can’t get enough of it.Īlready dubbed the hit of the summer, the film has been wowing critics and impressing mums, who are hailing Wonder Woman as a role model for their daughters. Based on the comic book super-heroine created in 1941, Wonder Woman charts the story of Diana Prince, an Amazonian goddess who fights German World War I soldiers and falls in love with a pilot. The other secret is that the film shows men being beaten to a pulp by a woman - an act that many on social media are saying they find rather guiltily satisfying. Many say its winning stroke is that women do not play the victim in it - unusual for mainstream movies. In contrast to many summer releases, this is an action film aimed squarely at the female market. No wonder they love it: not only are the protagonist and most of the cast female, but behind the camera (from the director to the production designer, set decorator and visual effects producer) there’s an army of women. The secret to its success is female viewers, who have been flooding to cinemas in their droves. Inspirational: Gal Gadot goes into battle as Wonder Woman in the new blockbuster in cinemas

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