RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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See the full story · 4 sourcesInsofar as anyone thought Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman would ever be part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe for Warner Bros., the actor would like to clarify that she made the decision to vacate the role herself. Gadot said on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that this decision was based on Warner Bros.’ treatment of co-star Henry Cavill and of Wonder Woman and WW84 director Patty Jenkins. “They [Gunn and Safran] were like, ‘We’re going to develop it with you, the third [ Wonder Woman movie],’ la la la,” Gadot told Horowitz. “But I saw the way everybody else were [sic] handled.”
“The Henry situation was not handled elegantly, to say the least,” Gadot went on, referring to the casting misery-go-round actor Henry Cavill endured amid WB’s hierarchical power shifts in the DC Universe, which began and ended with the Dwayne Johnson super-vehicle Black Adam . Cavill stated in a social media announcement that , as the Gunn/Safran changing of the guard loomed, he would appear as Superman again in the future, a plan was nipped in the bud almost immediately after Gunn/Safran announced DC Studios the next day. It’s a situation that Gunn himself told Horowitz was “unfair” to Cavill, as they had no intention of casting the Man Of Steel actor in the DCU-launching Superman: Legacy . David Corenswet was cast as Superman in June 2023.
“Same with Patty—[that] was not handled elegantly,” Gadot said of the Wonder Woman director, who took to X in December 2022 to clarify why Wonder Woman 3 wasn’t moving forward at the rechristened DC Studios. “I feel like, you know, we’re all adults, and it’s all good,” Gadot said. “And it’s not even about them. They are there, and they’re there to do what they believe in, and it’s all good.”
“I’m so grateful that I got the opportunity to wear these boots, and to have the character be so celebrated, and be the vessel at that point of time,” Gadot concluded. “And I can only wish for whoever one [sic] it’s going to be to really, you know, come pure to this journey. Because as much as it’s, like—we’re talking about movies and superheroes and blah blah blah—but this character really means so much to so many of us, to really use it respectfully and bring all the love and light it can to this world, and then enjoy the ride. It was never mine. I was always just a vessel.”
You can listen to Gadot’s comments at the 37:20 mark in the video below.
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