User blog comment:Matt Seay/Wonder Woman Cast!/@comment-1639863-20131205113346

I agree with Tupka. I doubt the directors thought about it like he did. I believe they were thinking that the fans wanted somebody to look as close facially to Wonder Woman as possible. They probably figured the woman they picked would pull an Affleck and just beef up for them anyway, if need be.

About the height, it's a little discouraging to know that. Hopefully, they do something similar with what they did with Bane in TDKRises. I think his actor is actually shorter than Bale in real life, so they had to use some fancy movie magic to change that.