Wonder Woman (2017)
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Fixed.
Believe it or not, I actually noticed that myself because I'm an obsessive who rereads my own posts.
But for most characters, that shouldn't matter. You wouldn't cast a black actor as Hitler, say (although quite a few Jewish actors have played him), but there's no reason you can't do it for a version of Nick Fury or Iris West or Jimmy Olsen. And there was no reason why Bolivar Trask couldn't be 4'5". Or why Jeryn Hogarth couldn't be a woman.
Really, though, Jackman's differences from Wolverine go beyond height. Wolverine's supposed to be an unusually stocky and muscular man -- often described as being like a very large man squashed flat -- as well as extremely hirsute and animal-like. Heck, he was originally conceived as an actual wolverine who'd been mutated into a human form. Jackman's extremely far from that -- he's basically Wolverine reimagined as a handsome leading man. Which is a pretty drastic reinterpretation.
I didn't say that it mattered, just that those details don't get hidden from being noticed, unlike minor height/weight variation. Though I don't think you want to cast a dwarf for a hero role if they are supposed to be involved in a lot of hand-to-hand combat or action. The choreography would be pretty limited. And it would be very weird if you were forced to use a dwarf out of necessity.
Well of course. No uglies allowed.
I dunno about that. There are a lot of ways that people of small stature can compensate for it, and there are ways that it could be an advantage. Heck, there are some professional Little Person stunt performers in the business, like Martin Klebba and Deep Roy. (And dwarves and hobbits in Middle Earth seem to do okay in combat.)
They were kinda tied down to the idea of tiny characters in LOTR, and they still decided to use full size actors & shrink them. The Hobbits aren't really fighters, they're sneaky.
Nut punch.
Nut punch.
Nut punch.
Short people are nasty.
Nut punch.
Nut punch.
Short people are nasty.
Which was more to do with their desire to have name actors in the roles than anything to do with physical ability. After all, a lot of that "shrinking" was done by using actual Little Person doubles in scenes where the actors' faces weren't seen or could be digitally superimposed. That no doubt included a lot of the action scenes.
It often doesn't. Chris Reeve had to dye his hair and build up his body to become Superman. Many shorter actors use various tricks to compensate for taller co-stars, including standing holes and standing on boxes. They gain or lose weight. They use make up and padding to change their physical appearance. All the actors who have played James Bond look nothing like the character in the book and don't closely resemble each other. Even historical figures aren't always cast with people who look the part. William Daniels (1776) looks nothing like John Adams. I doubt anyone would mistake Liam Neeson for Oskar Schindler.
Then there's Richard Crenna as Ross Perot.
William Daniels also looks nothing like a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, but that seemed to all work out fine.
But he sounds exactly like one.
No problem, only pointing out that Elodie is short when compared to the lead actors of BvS and the other women she competed with for the role of WW. Those women being Gal Gadot and Olga Kurylenko. Both of whom are 5'9.
I like to comment on the irony that the real Butch Cassidy looked far more like Charles Dierkopf, who played a minor member of Butch's gang in the movie, than like Paul Newman, who played Butch himself.
Then there are all the white, European actors who have played Jesus, Cleopatra, etc. And John Wayne as Genghis Khan...
So you're saying Liz Taylor wasn't Greco-Egyptian!?
has there ever been a historical figure who played themself in their own biopic?
There was a sitcom recently where David Hasselhoff was explaining that he looks too young to play himself as he is now believably in his own biography.
There was a sitcom recently where David Hasselhoff was explaining that he looks too young to play himself as he is now believably in his own biography.
Cool. 
Once I notice the weird "crotchguards", I can't stop staring at them...
It could mean they have distinct personalities.
Some set pictures have been released,
I really like the look they appear to be going for with the Amazons.
showing what appears to be some kind of confrontation between some Amazons and some soldiers. The recognizable characters in the pictures include Diana, her mother, and Steve Trevor. It looks like Diana and Steve are off by themselves, so those might be from a different scene.