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After an intense talent search that included and future star , twenty-three-year-old Lynda Carter was chosen for the lead role. She had had a handful of minor acting roles and had been the 1972 and a USO cast member. For the role of Steve Trevor, the producers chose Lyle Waggoner, despite his dark brown, almost-black, hair not matching the comic’s blond Trevor. Waggoner at the time was better known as a comedic actor after several years co-starring in . He was also known to Ross as having been one of the leading candidates to play Batman a decade earlier, eventually losing to . Waggoner was also considered a sex symbol, having done a semi-nude pictorial in the first issue of .
