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The DC Films Universe made news this week, when it was announced that SNL and Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig will be starring in Wonder Woman 2, and that she will be playing Wonder Woman nemesis, Cheetah.
Needless to say, fans are having a big reaction to learning of yet another out-of-left-field DC Films casting choice, and that response has been far from universally supportive.
However, while there are some pretty obvious concerns that come with having Kristen Wiig play Cheetah, the casting choic may be a more savvy choice for Wonder Woman 2 than many fans initially believe. Here’s why:
We don’t yet know which version of Cheetah director Patty Jenkins and DC Films intend to use, but the easy money is on the “New 52” version of the the 2010s, which combined a lot of earlier incarnations of the character into a more streamlined origin.
The classic versions of Cheetah (Priscilla Rich and Deborah Domaine) were simple villains in spandex costumes with cat-theme weaponry, who either had split personality disorder or brainwashing that made them socialites by day, and crazy criminals by night. The later versions, (Barbara Ann Minerva) were framed as an archaeologist or myth scientist who got possessed by an ancient relic or cemermony, which endowed her with mystical powers modeled after a cheetah.
The point of this that playing Cheetah is actually more like tackling two roles at once: a haughty intellectual and/or socialite who has a werewolf nature lurking under her unassuming surface. And it’s for that very reason that Kristen Wiig may be a really smart pick:
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