Everything is just so exciting.
The learning of the Wonder Woman history and the training,
everything is just amazing.
DEBORAH: It's such a rigorous training process
for someone who hasn't trained, really, that way before.
It's kind of a shock to your system.
MARK TWIGHT: With her, I wanted to develop something classic.
A character who could sell the physicality of the role,
but also hang a dress, also look beautiful and glamorous,
you know, wearing a ball gown,
wearing a dress, wearing normal street clothes.
The character has to go back and forth, and integrate into society
as well as being a total hitter when it comes to
swinging a sword and battling the bad guys.
GADOT: We worked out every day for two hours
for the past seven and a half months.
It was amazing.
It was very challenging,
but I learnt so much about myself.
There's such a great satisfaction
after you work so hard on something.
And then you see how you transform into something new.
And you see how it makes you feel, and you see that I...
I noticed that I started to stand differently and sit differently,
and just be... Feeling strong.
It gives you a different confidence.
TWIGHT: One aspect of working with Gal that made me very happy and satisfied
was going from wondering about her ability to do the role,
to just knowing that, "Okay, I have this. I can do this."
(CREW LAUGHING)
Fun.
DAMON CARO: Gal did a lot of training.
There's a lot of martial art drills that we'll do with her.
Stances, footwork, punching drills, kicking drills, etc.
And then she has some empty hand, but the majority of this film,
it was with the sword and shield.
So there were a lot of weapons training.
GADOT: I have to tell you that being a dancer helped a lot...
Whoo-hoo!
...because at the end of the day, it's all about choreography.
VVhoo! (GIGGLES)
-And cut. -And cut.
GADOT: I enjoyed it deeply,
holding the sword and holding the shield.
I had a blast.
I enjoyed working with them and I feel so grateful
that that was part of my job.
RYAN WATSON: The hard part was,
we had to figure out how her fight style has developed
over the hundreds of centuries, if you will,
her strengths and weaknesses.
The range of skills has to be very, very, organic.
Yeah.
-Whoo! -What? What now? What now?
-That's what I'm talking about. -(MAN LAUGHS)
DEBORAH: The biggest challenge on the movie, so far,
was the Wonder Woman costume.
When we started doing research on the character
and also determining what we would do for this costume,
we felt like it had to be a costume that a warrior would wear.
WILKINSON: One of the first things that Zack and I talked about is,
she's been wearing this costume
for her entire history, which is 3,000 years.
It's never changed.
And so, you can see the history of the character
within the costume itself.
DEBORAH: Michael and Zack came up with this idea that,
what if we go with something that's more like a gladiator costume
that feels ancient,
but it feels like something she could actually fight in.
WILKINSON: So you can see the influence of Greek culture
and the gladiator style metal armor that she wears.
The leg armor, the split skirt.
DEBORAH: It has a beautiful chest plate,
it has a kind of Wonder Woman emblem,
and it has the ever-so-slight hint of red and blue within the metal.
WILKINSON: You can also see the centuries of wear from battle,
from, you know, strikes from swords, all sorts of wear and tear.
The leather is crackled and ancient-looking.
All of her weapons are distressed
and they have a fantastic sense of age.
DEBORAH: It's been around for centuries and centuries
'cause she's immortal.
And who knows how old this costume is.
It really feels like something you could fight in.
WILKINSON: We really wanted the character to have a perfect balance between
a power and a sense of intimidation,
but also balance that with a grace and a majesty.
GADOT: It was incredible.
DEBORAH: She has lots of great toys.
She has this amazing lasso that glows,
especially when it's under her power.
And she has a sword,
and she has this really great shield
that's gone through so much battle and war.
It's pretty awesome.
The shield started off with an image
and then that grew and grew and grew and grew,
until it became sort of like an oil painting.
Using that eagle motif, we tried to give it a texture and a relief,
but just this ghosting of the eagle.
It's great. I think it turned out really well.
and she has this amazing strength.
She's very wise.
I think this is a very important character for all people to see.
To be a part of it and actually create it is out of this world.
ZACK SNYDER: I think that we've been careful to not just abridge her history
so that we can horseshoe it into the film.
I love the icon of her being inserted into this man struggle
between Superman and Batman.