# Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320 "2003-07-27T22:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/21 "2003-07-28T12:16:13Z")
Lucy Lawless would be perfect, but I seem to recall her saying she wouldn’t do it because it was too similar to her Zena character and she wanted to do other things. Unfortunately no link, don’t have time now to search. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/22 "2003-07-28T12:19:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zap\_Rowsdower \* > \*\*Lucy Lawless would be perfect, but I seem to recall her saying she wouldn’t do it because it was too similar to her Zena character and she wanted to do other things. Unfortunately no link, don’t have time now to search. \*\* Huh. Had no idea about that when I said she probably wouldn’t want to do it. Just call me the gateway into Lucy Lawless’s mind. By the way, it’s _X_ena. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/23 "2003-07-28T12:38:42Z")
I’ll just take this opportunity to mention _Super Troopers_, one of my favourite little-known comedies, in which Carter has a bit part as the Governor of Vermont. And I’m all for the bondage-heavy original comic version, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/24 "2003-07-28T14:25:53Z")
What about Carrie-Anne Moss, she can kick butt - watch the Matrix, - she might be able to draw people to a movie, if it was good, and she looked like Wonder Woman and if she grew her hair out or got a good wig, she would look like she did when she was in Model’s Inc. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/25 "2003-07-28T14:25:53Z")
What about Carrie-Anne Moss, she can kick butt - watch the Matrix, - she might be able to draw people to a movie, if it was good, and she looked like Wonder Woman and if she grew her hair out or got a good wig, she would look like she did when she was in Model’s Inc. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/26 "2003-07-28T17:52:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zap\_Rowsdower \* > \*\*Lucy Lawless would be perfect, but I seem to recall her saying she wouldn’t do it because it was too similar to her Zena character and she wanted to do other things. Unfortunately no link, don’t have time now to search. \*\* I’ve read in Wizard and other trades that she’d love to do it. Xena is to Wonder Woman what Conan is to Superman. The only comparison that really sticks is the warrior princess concept. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/27 "2003-07-28T17:54:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Intaglio \* > \*\*What about Carrie-Anne Moss, she can kick butt - watch the Matrix, - she might be able to draw people to a movie, if it was good, and she looked like Wonder Woman and if she grew her hair out or got a good wig, she would look like she did when she was in Model’s Inc. \*\* For the look of the contemporary Wonder Woman, she looks too old. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/28 "2003-07-28T18:47:01Z")
And too skinny. She’d have to put on 20 pounds in all the right places to match the design of the comic book character. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/29 "2003-07-28T18:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lemur866 \* > \*\*And too skinny. She’d have to put on 20 pounds in all the right places to match the design of the comic book character. \*\* Let’s hold her down, force feed her cheesecake, and see what happens. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/30 "2003-07-28T18:58:13Z")
That’s the problem with most actresses today. None of them have the bulk to play Wonder Woman. Lucy Lawless doesn’t either, but somehow she can _look_ voluptuous without actually _being_ voluptuous. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/31 "2003-07-28T19:03:38Z")
Linda Carter looked “bigger then life” She seemed tall and she was not chunky but she was not petite either. She exuded the role of Wonder Woman. The only person I can think of that might share the same qualities is Lucy Lawless. But I don’t know if she would be believable after doing Xena The Princess Warrior. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/32 "2003-07-28T19:18:48Z")
The only solution is to stage a nationwide talent search the likes of which hasn’t been seen since MGM cast Scarlett O’Hara. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/33 "2003-07-28T20:20:31Z")
Jennifer Connelly. But only because I want to see her run around in a skimpy bikini for a couple of hours. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/34 "2003-07-29T00:29:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*The only solution is to stage a nationwide talent search the likes of which hasn’t been seen since MGM cast Scarlett O’Hara. \*\* No. We’ll…_build_…one. Plastic surgery, silicone “enhancement”…oh yes. Very do-able. 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/35 "2003-07-29T01:00:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*Jennifer Connelly. But only because I want to see her run around in a skimpy bikini for a couple of hours. 😃 \*\* Hmmmm, Jennifer Connelly… running… in a skimpy bikini… in slo-mo… Harumpf, excuse me, I’m needed elsewhereyeah, that’s the ticket ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/36 "2003-07-29T01:27:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > \*\*Oh. The first Wonder Woman in live action was Ellie Wood Walker who was in a pilot in 1966 called **Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince**? > > It costarred veteran actress Hope Summers(who appeared on episodes of Bewitched and other sitcoms) as Diana’s mother. > > On the [movie clip](http://www.wonderwoman-online.com/movies.html) section of my website, I have the full 4 minute pilot. It has to be seen to be believed. \*\* Holy craptasticness Batman! That was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Mind you, Ellie Walker seemed kind of cute, but…wow. That business with the mirror? Today that’d lead to something you’d only see on Showtime or Cinemax late at night. Wow. I’ve gotta see it again. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/37 "2003-07-29T02:44:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > \*\*Oh. The first Wonder Woman in live action was Ellie Wood Walker who was in a pilot in 1966 called **Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince**? > > It costarred veteran actress Hope Summers(who appeared on episodes of Bewitched and other sitcoms) as Diana’s mother. > > On the [movie clip](http://www.wonderwoman-online.com/movies.html) section of my website, I have the full 4 minute pilot. It has to be seen to be believed. \*\* Am I the only one who cannot find the clip on this page? I get the tabs at the top of the screen but the bottom of the screen is blank. Please help, I need to see this. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/38 "2003-07-29T03:11:28Z")
Quoth **Bosda** : > [@](#): > > No. > > We’ll…build…one. > > Plastic surgery, silicone “enhancement”…oh yes. > Very do-able. Who are you kidding? Even with how many years of experience, plastic surgeons can’t even get breasts to look remotely close to right. And you think that they can do a good job with much more difficult muscle and general bulk? It’d be like trying to build an SUV on the chassis of a Volkswagen Beetle. Not doable at all. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/39 "2003-07-29T04:04:55Z")
For those of you who hate RealPlayer, there is a replacement player that supposedly can play all the variants of RealVideo and RealAudio without mucking up your system the way RealOne does. Haven’t tested it, though. I won’t link to it directly because it’s generally carried on sites that also promote filesharing software, which is frowned on around here, but if you google “real alternative realmedia” you should be able to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320/40 "2003-07-29T05:03:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Isabelle \* > \*\*Linda Carter looked “bigger then life” She seemed tall and she was not chunky but she was not petite either. She exuded the role of Wonder Woman. > > The only person I can think of that might share the same qualities is Lucy Lawless. But I don’t know if she would be believable after doing Xena The Princess Warrior. \*\* Lynda. The woman’s name is Lynda. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman/191320.md?page=3)