Gal Gadotis a true believer in fate. And she might be on to something. If she had made a string of different choices in her life, she wouldn’t be playingWonder WomaninBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or the stand alone movie, or the upcoming two-partJustice League. Instead, she would have been relegated to a much smaller role in theDCEU, though that particular character did play an important part in makingMan of Steelthe grandsuperhero adventurethat it was.
When Gal Gadot auditioned forWonder Woman, she blew everyone in the room away. Though, she almost didn’t get the chance. And a good portion of all this has to do with the fact that everyone in the room had seen her before. She’d originally auditioned for a role inMan of Steel. And guess what? She won that part too. Though, she had to turn it down for a very particular reason.
Speaking with Israeli websiteXnet, Gal Gadot went off on a well-earned tangent about Karma. It’s something she knows a lot about, and it seems to have certainly guided her life. She explains how Karma played an important role in landing her theWonder Womangig, which currently spans4 moviesand will likely include more in the future.
“When I was a month pregnant with (my daughter) Alma, I got an offer to be the evil Superman character. If I wasn’t pregnant I’d take the job, and there’s no way they would take me now to be Wonder Woman.”
Of course, the evil Superman character she is referring to is Faora. That role eventually went toAntje Traueinstead. Equally as stunning, and perhaps build a little tougher, it’s not hard to seeAntje Traueswapping places with Gal Gadot asWonder Woman, alas it was never meant to be.
InMan of Steel, Sub-Commander Faora-Ul is Zod’s lieutenant, who gets sentenced to 300 cycles in the Phantom Zone along with Zod. After Krypton’s destruction, Faora and the other prisoners are freed from the Phantom Zone, and search for Kal-El and the Codex, a device containing the genetic code for all future Kryptonians, which were able to escape the planet’s destruction due to Jor-El’s last-minute actions. After finding him on Earth, Faora is responsible for bringing Kal-El and Lois Lane aboard Zod’s ship. After they escape, Faora and another powerful Kryptonian grunt named Nam-Ek, confront Kal-El and the U.S. Military in Smallville, but are defeated because Kal-El managed to break her helmet.
After Zod begins terraforming the Earth with a world engine retrieved from a Kryptonian Colony that they visited before arriving to Earth, Faora and all the other Kryptonians (except Zod) are sent back to the Phantom Zone after the ship that brought Kal-El to Earth is re-purposed into a strike weapon. As in the comics, Faora is a major threat to Kal-El in hand-to-hand combat, outfighting him easily at first. However Kal-El is able to hold his own against her and Nam-Ek, since the two Kryptonians have yet to attain heat vision and flight and he is stronger than they are due to his longer exposure to solar radiation.
Faora didn’t die inMan of Steel, and it’s possible that she could return inMan of Steel 2. But she definitely isn’t a key part of the DCEU, such as Wonder Woman is. No disrespect toAntje Traue, but Gal Gadot is probably very happy she got the gig she did. If she hadn’t of gotten pregnant, who knows who would be standing inDiana Prince’s bright red boots at this point in time.
