Media Watch: Gal Gadot Buffs Up

As celebrity female muscle pics go, more stir has been created by Israeli actress Gal Gadot's Facebook post from February 17th than most. There's nothing like a good workout in the morning, she writes, showing us her, er, bicep. Love it! You?

The stir is the result of the announcement at the end of last year that she had been cast in what's being called Batman Vs Superman (although officially it doesn't have a title yet, and is listed on IMDb as Untitled Superman-Batman Project). No, Gal hasn't been cast as Superman, and no, she hasn't been cast as Batman, either.

She's going to be Wonder Woman.

The announcement sparked off some hilarious reactions from the world of comic fandom as grown men in bedrooms all over the world complained via the wonder of social media that Gal didn't have the breasts or the muscles to play Wonder Woman.

And, with the above picture and an interview on Israeli TV, Gal has responded.

Breasts... anyone can buy for 9,000 shekels and everything is fine. By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I’d really go "by the book"... it’d be problematic.

Now, apparently Gal is quite a big deal with people who watch movies like Fast & Furious, but I have to admit I'd never heard of her before this picture arrived in the FMS inbox. However, the way she out-geeked the geekboys with her knowledge of Amazonian culture there... Well, I'm beginning to like her.

And, according to her interview, "a good workout in the morning" is not going to be the limit of her mass-building in preparation for the part (and given that the movie isn't going into production anytime soon, she's got plenty of time to build that mass).

It’s the physical preparations that I’m starting now, she says. A very serious training regimen – Kung Fu, kickboxing, swords, jujitsu, Brazilian... I’ll gain body mass.

Well, that is good news. And if there are going to be progress pictures along the way, even better. Meanwhile, like the good female muscle head I am, I will be completely ignoring developments in the world of comic book superheroine debate, although if I fancy a bit of cosplay, there's no shortage of images of REAL Wonder Womans (Wonder Women? Neither sounds quite right!) for the female muscle head to enjoy...