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Actor Luke Evans talks about equality, power and playing Wonder Woman's liberated creator

The Cricket • After playing the brutish Gaston, Evans relishes role as a proto-feminist in ‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’

(Claire Folger / Annapurna Pictures) Bella Heathcote, left, stars as Olive Byrne, Luke Evans as Dr. William Marston and Rebecca Hall as Elizabeth Marston in "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women."

William Moulton Marston put himself in a position many men wouldn’t dare place themselves: Between two smart, powerful and sexually adventurous women.

But Marston — the Harvard-trained psychologist whose research led to the invention of the lie detector, and who created the most popular female superhero of all time, Wonder Woman — was no ordinary man.