But I'm in the process of doing my third album. They're more like mini-concerts, I guess you'd call them. Can you tell us about your act?Ī: My band is too big to be considered a cabaret band. Q: Nowadays, you are primarily a singer and your band recently played Jazz at the Lincoln Center. But now it's coming up on 20 years since I've been sober. But, of course, that just rears its ugly head and bites you. I went through some tough times, and it brought solace at the time. I think that that was more about my bad marriage. Was that all about the post-"Wonder Woman'' blues?Ī: Yes and no. Q: You have been open about your struggles with alcohol and finding sobriety. And I'm sure I had no makeup on, and I'm sure I went, ''Huh, really?'' Does that sort of thing change the way you see yourself in the mirror?Ī: I'm sure I went and looked. Q: At the height of your fame in the 1970s, you were voted the most beautiful woman in the world in one poll. If a guy comes up and says, ''Oh my God, I had such a crush on you when I was a teenager,'' I say: ''Talk to the hand. And I'll tell you this, when women recognize me in airports, I hold them in my arms and they cry.
WHO PLAYED WONDER WOMAN TV
That show got me through this difficult time, that difficult time.'' That's really where the fantasy became a reality, where Wonder Woman became something much more than a TV show or a comic book. Q: Some critics called Wonder Woman a ''male fantasy." But wasn't the show more aimed at girls than boys?Ī: I still have women at airports coming up to me saying: ''Oh, you don't know what it meant to me. I played her being for women, not against men. She was saying: ''You have a problem with a strong woman? I am who I am get over it." I never played her as mousy. I never really thought of Wonder Woman as a super-racy character.
Q: Did you ever think of your character as sexy?Ī: If you think of the '70s, that was miniskirts and bikinis. The character is an Amazonian princess, not ''American.'' They're trying to put her in a box, and she's not in a box. It's the ultimate sexist thing to say that's all you can see, when you think about Wonder Woman, all you can think about is a sex object.Ī: Yeah, so? Superman had a skintight outfit that showed every little ripple, didn't he? Doesn't he have a great big bulge in his crotch? Hello! So why don't they complain about that? And who says Wonder Woman is ''white''? I'm half-Mexican Gal Gadot is Israeli. She's an iconic defender she's archetypal. What I disagree with is this idea about Wonder Woman.
I agree that the issue of gender equality is much larger than any character is, and I understand that a comic-book character should not be representative of something that is that important. Q: Does there seem to be some disagreement about what a feminist icon should look like?Ī: What I find interesting is that they didn't look at the larger picture. passed over several women to become secretary-general.Īt 65, Carter is preparing to pass her golden lasso to Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress who will appear in the film version of ''Wonder Woman,'' set for release in the spring.Ĭarter took time from acting (including a role as the president on ''Supergirl'' and a governor in the coming film ''Super Troopers 2'') and career as a singer (she just competed a four-city tour and is recording her third studio album) to talk about the complex legacy of her Amazon princess alter ego. didn't put a woman in there.'' The ambassadorship was announced just weeks after the U.N. Of the pushback that accompanied the campaign, Carter thinks that some of it might have resulted because ''the U.N. spokesman said in a New York Times article that the campaign had merely run its course and that the end had nothing to do with the uproar), one loyalist wasn't going to sit by as her cape was dragged through the mud: Lynda Carter, the actress who starred in the 1970s TV show ''Wonder Woman.'' The question dogged a United Nations campaign featuring the superhero as a symbol of self-empowerment for girls and women.Īlthough some feminists might have felt triumphant when the United Nations announced the end of the Wonder Woman campaign this month (a U.N. Is Wonder Woman a ''pinup girl'' or a feminist icon?
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