Ana de Armas Isn't The New DCU's Wonder Woman, So Stop Searching
Ana de Armas Isn't The New DCU's Wonder Woman, So Stop Searching
Strange how ten seconds can become a story
Oh the things people will pick up. To promote their film Ghosted, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas took part in a WIRED Autocomplete Interview, which has celebrities answer “the web’s most searched questions”, and that meant corralling a lasso of truth for a certain question not even reporters were asking her.
In her last round, “Is Ana de Armas the new Wonder Woman?” is one of these questions. This means either people are confusing faces and mixing accents, or people were already speculating on Wonder Woman’s casting before candidates for Superman come out. They’re already jumping on fan-casting and putting her as the frontrunner. DCU architect and Studio Co-CEO James Gunn already had to ward off such rumors that Superman was already cast, which is still somewhat early even now after Creature Commandos had its cast revealed earlier this month.
However, de Armas still had to face this question, and did so gracefully. It also has to be considered that the role hasn’t been vacated yet. Sure, Wonder Woman 3 isn’t part of “Gods & Monsters” but there’s no role departure to report. Wonder Woman’s cameo in The Flash may have been cut but her place in Shazam! Fury of the Gods was maintained. And so de Armas responded, “Well, I feel like Gal Gadot is doing a great job. I think she should keep doing that.” Obviously, even in jest, it would be weird to so openly gun for a job like that in such a way when there’s no guarantee it would open.
Ghosted was released Friday exclusively on Apple TV+ to not-so-great reviews, and de Armas, during the video which can be watched below, made sure to plug her leading the John Wick spinoff film Ballerina, set between the third and fourth films and for release next year.