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Lynda Carter, TV’s Wonder Woman, Defends Wonder Woman from James Cameron

“STOP IT.”


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James Cameron, director of Titanic, Avatar, and the numerous upcoming collection of Avatar sequels, can’t stop questioning Wonder Woman‘s success. In an interview with The Guardian last month he said, “She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing!” Cameron doubled down on his Wonder Woman critique in a recent Hollywood Reporter interview, in which he spoke about lead actress Gal Gadot, saying, “I mean, she 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.”

Lynda Carter, aka TV’s Wonder Woman, has had enough.

“To James Cameron -STOP dissing WW: You poor soul,” Carter wrote in a Facebook post. “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.”

Carter isn’t the first woman to call Cameron out. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins took to Twitter last month to lay out exactly what the Alien director was missing about her film. “…if women have to always be hard, tough and troubled to be strong, and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far have we,” Jenkins wrote. “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.”

See Lynda Carter, the Original Wonder Woman, Through the Years

Lynda Carter walking on the street with The Daily News; circa 1970; New York. (Photo by Art Zelin/Getty Images)

Art Zelin

Wearing an Indian necklace, Lynda Carter, Miss USA, arrives at London Airport for the Miss World Contest at the Royal Albert Hall in November 1972. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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Lynda Carter. (Photo by Echoes/Redferns)

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

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“The New Original Wonder Woman” pilot aired November 7, 1975.

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, 1975.

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Lynda Carter (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Ron Galella

Lynda Carter at Le Bistro Restaurant, Los Angeles in January 1979. (Photo by Tom Wargacki/WireImage)

Tom Wargacki

Lynda Carter with Ray Charles, 1981.

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Ron Samuels with his wife Linda Carter in the ’70s. (Photo by Art Zelin/Getty Images)

Art Zelin

Lynda Carter, 1982.

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Lynda Carter (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Ron Galella

Lynda Carter during Bob Hope Easter Special at NBC Studios in Burbank, CA, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Lynda Carter (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

Ron Galella, Ltd.

Lynda Carter during The Costume Institute Gala – December 9, 1991 at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Ron Galella

Lynda Carter (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Ron Galella

Lynda Carter during TV Critic Press Tour – July 8, 1994 at Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City, California, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

Ron Galella, Ltd.

Lynda Carter during American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala at Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)

Dimitrios Kambouris

Lynda Carter.

Lynda Carter at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., December 2014.

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Lynda Carter at the Gods Love We Deliver gala in New York, New York, October 2015.

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Lynda Carter in New York, New York, April 2016.

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Honoree/actress Lynda Carter attends the 41st Annual Gracie Awards at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 24, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

Jeffrey Mayer

Actress Lynda Carter visits SiriusXM Studio on April 19, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

Monica Schipper

Actors Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter pose as the UN names the comic character Wonder Woman its Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls during a ceremony at the United Nations Economic and Social Council Chamber on October 21, 2016, in New York. Gadot plays Wonder Woman in a film to be released in 2017, while Carter portrayed the character on television in the 1970s.

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Lynda Carter arrives at the 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on December 4, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/WireImage)

Paul Morigi

Linda Carter attends The Paley Honors: Celebrating Women In Television at Cipriani Wall Street on May 17, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jenny Anderson/WireImage)

Jenny Anderson

Actors Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter attend the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Wonder Woman” at the Pantages Theatre on May 25, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Lynda Carter poses for photos during the “Library of Awesome” pop-up exhibit at The Library of Congress on June 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

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