Lynda Carter, the original “Wonder Woman,” wants director James Cameron to stop talking negatively about the hit blockbuster, telling him in a Facebook post, “STOP dissing WW.”
In August, Cameron, comparing the movie’s star Gal Gadot with his Terminator film’s character Sarah Connor, said, “All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided. She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing … it’s a step backwards.”
This month he further commented, “[Gal Gadot] was Miss Israel, and she was wearing a kind of bustier costume that was very form-fitting. She’s absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. To me, that’s not breaking ground. They had Raquel Welch doing stuff like that in the ’60s.”
Carter, who played the iconic superhero from 1975 to 1979 isn’t having it.
“To James Cameron -STOP dissing WW: You poor soul,” she wrote on Facebook on Thursday. “Perhaps you do not understand the character. I most certainly do. Like all women–we are more than the sum of our parts. Your thuggish jabs at a brilliant director, Patty Jenkins, are ill-advised. This movie was spot on. Gal Gadot was great. I know, Mr. Cameron — because I have embodied this character for more than 40 years. So — STOP IT.”
“Wonder Woman,” director Patty Jenkins had previously responded to Cameron, saying, “James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great film-maker, he is not a woman … I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING, just like male lead characters should be. There is no right and wrong kind of powerful woman. And the massive female audience who made the film a hit it is, can surely choose and judge their own icons of progress.”
“Wonder Woman” was a hit at the box office, raking in $820.4 million as of Wednesday.