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The world premiere of Wonder Woman in Hollywood on Thursday became an iconic event when the original and current actresses to play Diana Prince met.
Gal Gadot, who plays the heroine in the new film walked the red carpet with Lynda Carter, the original Wonder Woman who portrayed her in the 1970s TV series.
The old and new versions of the iconic DC Comics character came together to celebrate the film’s US release (it hits Australian cinemas June 23).
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Carter, now 65, is an inspiration. Speaking at the United Nations recently, she said of the character she played on screen for several years:
“In some magical and mystical way, there lies within each of us Wonder Woman. She is real. She lives and she breathes. I know this because she lives in me, and she lives in the stories that these women tell me, day in and day out. I see it in the letters and in the stories. I read it on social media. I see it in the tears that fall from the eyes of the women who say it saved them from some awful thing that they endured – because they saw that they could do something great.”
Wonder Woman, the first film in which Diana Prince is the lead character, is undoubtedly the film the world needs right now. From Hillary Clinton’s US election loss to a misogynistic man who bragged about ‘grabbing them by the pussy’ and wants to de-fund Planned Parenthood, to a terrorist attack on Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman tour that targeted young women and girls, we could use a feminist hero right about now.
