Why Gadot for this important role?

Rating: 7/10 (20 January 2019)

I have mixed feelings. The movie is overall enoyable, and by far the best recent dc movie (haven't seen Aquaman yet; Jan, 20, 2019) but Gadot is aweful and terribly overrated. She has two facial expressions that she uses as a swiss army knife: in any situation. Her filmography before this role tells us that she was inexperienced for for this role. Why such an important role to her?